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
-
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.
-
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.
-
Publicity, information & outreach
-
Nuclear Ban info: the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)
TPNW background information and news
-
Updates and reports
View and download from this page recent Updates, Annual reports and Financial Statements
NFPB Voices
-
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.
-
Time for action on climate, for peace
As we approach the COP26 UN climate conference, the urgency of addressing climate issues is pressing. Friends worldwide are, with others, taking action, from art activism, advocacy and prayer to nonviolent witness, to urge governments to make choices that will contribute to justice and to the wellbeing of the planet. Links between peace and climate … Read more
-
Autumn update
This is an overview of some recent meetings and activities, with pointers to current and new resources relating to our work. NFPB meetings NFPB members met – still by video conference – in June and September. At our June meeting, We reflected together on the situation in Israel and Palestine, following the recent escalation of … Read more
-
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
-
Report of NFPB meeting on 6 March
-
Glimpsing hope, supporting one another
-
Welcoming the treaty – witnessing for peace
-
Nuclear weapons treaty: open letter to the government
-
Spend on war no more
-
Nuclear weapons abolition breakthrough
-
NFPB support for Christian CND Statement on the anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings