The very widely-reported forced-entry by police into Westminster Quaker Meeting House on 27 March has caused NFPB concern and alarm. We uphold those directly affected by this incident and those: – seeking to find nonviolent ways of expressing legitimate dissent to pressing issues of peace and climate justice; – working for change to the punitive … Read more
NFPB members gathered in Nottingham and online on 1 March for our first meeting of the year, after a week in which issues of war and peace, diplomacy and international politics could not be ignored. Military spending was a focus during our morning session. Russell Whiting joined us to speak about the issue and about … Read more
As reported in a previous item the main output of the Alternative Security Review will be released in September. The month will also see the first Global Week of Action on Peace and Climate Justice, 21-28 September Can you raise these issues with your MP? At a time when effects of the climate crisis become … Read more
In the second of this summer’s regional NFPB events Friends from three Area Meetings gathered at Darlington Meeting House on 6th July 2024. The date and theme had been planned before the General Election announcement, but the result of that election two days previously provided a not-insignificant backdrop to the meeting. Rethinking Security – the … Read more
General election 2024 At the time of writing, we are in the run-up to the general election. We have created a page which will be updated as necessary – with links to resources from a range of organisations with peace concerns on their agenda. Elections are opportunities to raise these issues with candidates, and then … Read more
Friends from four different area meetings met in Stockport on 11 May, for a small regional gathering for NFPB members and other interested Friends. The meeting took place towards the end of the Global Days of Action on Military Spending, for which NFPB is an active member of the UK steering group. Following a preparatory … Read more
NFPB member Phoebe Spence writes… Friday 21st April 2023 was the first day of the four day action taking place outside Parliament organised by XR with many other groups including Quakers joining in. It was the first big test of their new approach to action being more inclusive, accessible, no arrests etc. Several hundred Quakers … Read more
November meeting The final of our four members’ meetings of 2022 was to have been at Lancaster Meeting House at the end of November, with a zoom link. Unfortunately, it coincided with a day of industrial action by rail workers, meaning that few Friends would have been able to get there. The meeting online worked … Read more
– a brief update of recent activities. Whilst Covid is still with us, we are moving out of the pandemic patterns of working and gathering, and this autumn is a typically busy one. NFPB meetings Following our successful hybrid/blended meeting in June, a further meeting for NFPB members took place in late September. The reduced … Read more
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