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 Events
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13 May 2026 to 17 Jun 2026
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Making Peace With Conflict: Skills for Difficult Conversations
Woodbrooke Course. Every Weds 7pm-9. Details here.
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15 May 2026
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International Conscientious Objectors’ Day
For information about events to mark this day in the UK visit https://www.ppu.org.uk/events .
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13 Jun 2026
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Living our Peace Testimony – A Gathering
a gathering for inspiration, challenge, encouragement and connection - contact us if you want to know more about this day as plans develop https://nfpb.org.uk/lopt2026/
Featured pages
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Updates and reports
View and download from this page recent Updates, Annual reports and Financial Statements
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Living our Peace Testimony – a gathering in York on 13th June 2026
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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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Iran – some responses and comment following February 2026 US and Israel military action
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Donate
All financial contributions – however great or small – make a real difference to our ability to continue providing such services as this web site and those activities described elsewhere.
NFPB Voices
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What’s in a name?
As an organisation, we sometimes face puzzlement about why we’re a Peace Board, rather than a committee, council, network, association or some other collective noun. It is unusual for us to face a situation, as we have this week, in which the pairing of those two words has come to be of global significance, with … Read more
Latest News
News relating to our work is also published in an occasional newsletter and shared through our Facebook, Bluesky and Instagram accounts.
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Search for new NFPB Coordinator begins
**** The closing date for this recruitment has now passed. Thank you to all those who have shared the information and expressed an interest in the post. **** As reported in previous updates, Northern Friends Peace Board has begun the process of finding someone to serve as our Coordinator from October (first three months in … Read more
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Paul Rogers speaks at well-attended meeting in Darlington
Forty-five Friends attended the NFPB meeting held on 28th February, with most present at Darlington Meeting House and a number also online. This first meeting of the year took place on the day that news was coming through of the military action by the United States and Israel against Iran. The Board agreed a short … Read more
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At the turning of the year…
It will be no surprise to report that Friends involved in our work have found the context for promoting and taking action for peace very challenging this year. We hope it is also no surprise to note that Friends and others find it really important to meet with one another, to share concerns, ideas and … Read more
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NFPB meeting in York – report
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Nuclear weapons – preparing for 80th Hiroshima and Nagasaki commemoration, and further action
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NFPB members consider current and future priorities
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Ploughshares into swords?
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New publication – Responses to war
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Meeting houses, policing and dissent
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Call to reverse decision on military spending increases & News of GDAMS 2025