NFPB members met for their last meeting of the year (and of the first 99 years of this Quaker committee) in Liverpool at the end of November. Members from all parts of the North shared in worship, in telling one another about current peace concerns and activities in their area and reflecting in more depth on … Read more

The first of our centenary activities comes ahead of the year of the centenary itself. We have had calendars printed for 2013, using posters from different parts of NFPB’s long history. With one calendar for each month, this is just a small selection of the several hundred stored in our archives. It was difficult to choose which would … Read more

Cathy Holman attended this ‘Scotland’s For Peace’ event on behalf of NFPB. It was held in the Scottish parliament building in March. She reports: The meeting was organised to “rethink what ‘Defence’ policy should be about and to shift from aggressive expeditionary military action and nuclear weapons to a Human Security policy” and then to consider … Read more

Quakers in York have arranged a series of free talks, to take place on Tuesday evenings during October. The venue will be Bootham School (the Main Hall), one of the two Quaker schools in the city. The first talk will be given by Haleh Afshar on ‘Iran: problems and possibilities’. Haleh Asfhar is a politics professor at … Read more

At our most recent event, taking place in Manchester in July, more than 40 people came together to learn more about dialogue, each having the chance to be part of two different workshops.Much of the potential of dialogue in society has still to be realised, concluded a report from Lisa Cumming and Ute Kelly from Bradford’s department … Read more

The next major event we have coming up is a first-time collaboration with two innovative projects that promote different approaches to dialogue and building better understanding amongst diverse groups and individuals. Called ‘Talking Together’ and taking place in central Manchester (at Cross Street Unitarian Chapel) the event will consist of two workshops, with each participant … Read more

On 30th June this year’s Armed Forces Day (AFD) takes place. The website for the day (http://www.armedforcesday.org.uk/) states that its purpose is to raise awareness of what is done by members of the armed forces and to show our support. It also encourages people to hold picnics … “there is no better way to celebrate … Read more

We are fast approaching our centenary year. More information about the purpose and range of activities that we are planning to mark that anniversary are on our project page , which will be updated regularly over the coming months. The first resource we hope to have available is a calendar, featuring just a small selection of the … Read more

Thirty Board members were joined and made welcome by about half a dozen Darlington Friends for our first NFPB meeting of the year, with Friends present from Perth in Scotland and Nottingham in the south of the Board’s area and Meetings in between. Some Friends were with us for their first Board meeting and in our worship … Read more