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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Nuclear Ban info: the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)
TPNW background information and news
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Updates and reports
View and download from this page recent Updates, Annual reports and Financial Statements
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Publicity, information & outreach
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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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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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Review – “Hope’s Work: Facing the future in an age of Crises”
… an unusual, but I feel a very necessary book… through the telling of stories and meditative prose, it encourages those of us engaged in the struggle to change the world for the better to carry on; and also, maybe, to realise that we don’t have to carry the burden of hope alone.
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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Campaigners, faith groups and NGOs urge rethink over military spending
A wide range ofUK campaigning organisations, including NFPB, are urging the government to rethink its military spending decisions in the light of the pandemic and the climate emergency. Figures released today by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) show that global military spending in 2020 increased by 2.6% to $1981 billion and the UK’s … Read more
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Report of NFPB meeting on 6 March
Thirty seven Friends gathered for our first full NFPB meeting of 2021. Just over a year earlier Derby Meeting House was our venue; this time we came together courtesy of zoom, warmly welcomed but without the handshakes and cups of coffee on arrival. We have a number of new members this year and we were … Read more
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Glimpsing hope, supporting one another
Thirty Friends gathered online on 20th February, for the first of this year’s periodic NFPB informal meetings. NFPB members and others who share our concerns used the opportunity to introduce themselves – with a good number of new NFPB representatives being amongst them – and to reflect on areas of inspiration and hope. Following a … Read more
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Welcoming the treaty – witnessing for peace
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Nuclear weapons treaty: open letter to the government
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Spend on war no more
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Nuclear weapons abolition breakthrough
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NFPB support for Christian CND Statement on the anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings
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The same but very different
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Our continuing work – a brief update