Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) is a Quaker group that supports and encourages ‘the active promotion of peace in all its height and breadth’. We hope you find what you are looking for, and more, on this website.
Featured pages
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Ukraine
Some links and resources at a time of crisis: - This page has external links to resources that we hope are helpful in building understanding and in promoting peace in relation to the war in Ukraine.
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Nuclear Ban info: the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)
TPNW background information and news
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Peace and Climate Change
... links shared here include a range of Quaker resources and organisations, and those from other parts of the wider peace movement that address the links between the climate crisis and peace.
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Updates and reports
View and download from this page recent Updates, Annual reports and Financial Statements
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The Quaker peace testimony – resources
This page aims to give some points for exploration of both historic and contemporary aspects of the Quaker peace testimony, with material from a variety of Quaker perspectives.
NFPB Voices
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Review: Sowing Seeds for the Future
Sowing Seeds for the Future by Andrew Rigby – review by Steven Waling The subtitle of this book is ‘Exploring the power of constructive nonviolent action.’ Andrew Rigby has written an often times fascinating account of the various means of creating a new society within the present often violent and exploitative world we now live … Read more
Latest News
News relating to our work is also published in an occasional newsletter and shared through our Facebook , Twitter and Instagram accounts.
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Interfaith statement as UN nuclear prohibition meeting gets under way
NFPB is one of nearly 150 faith communities and organisations that have signed an interfaith statement, released today as the first Meeting of the States Parties to the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) formally gets under way in Vienna. The statement reflects that :“We gather at a time when the threat … Read more
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NFPB meeting on 18 June
NFPB members met online and in-person on 18 June; 33 were present at the meeting during the day. Central Leeds (Carlton Hill) Meeting House provided the hospitality and technical set-up for our meeting, the first blended meeting we had held and the first time a number of us had met one-another in person. We made … Read more
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Nuclear weapons – danger and opportunity
The war in Ukraine has had a devastating humanitarian impact. … At the same time as the war grinds on in and the brutality continues, preparations are under way for a very different event in central Europe; the first meeting of the states parties to the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), from 21-23 June.