Quaker Peace & Social Witness is a hub for local and national Quaker action for peace and justice and is committed to nonviolent social change.

All our work strives to reflect and express Quaker testimonies to peace and nonviolence, simplicity, equality and community, and truth and integrity. We support Quaker witness in local communities and represent Quakers at a national level to parliament, government and the general public.

QPSW aims to respond adventurously to leadings of the Spirit in our work for peace and social witness. QPSW undertakes only such work as is appropriate for a Britain-wide, Quaker body.

By providing information and briefings, promoting good practice and facilitating contacts among meetings and groups, we will help to strengthen Quaker witness throughout Britain Yearly Meeting. At all times we engage with groups in Britain and abroad that seek to achieve peace and social justice by their transforming work.

We will engage with groups, including Friends' meetings and other Quaker and non-Quaker groups in Britain and across the world, to support them and learn from them in whatever way we can. We will work in spheres where we have expertise and experience, wherever in the world we are called to do so.

About Quakers

Quaker Faith

Our Quaker faith springs from the experience that each one of us can have a direct relationship with the Divine. We Quakers find that by meeting together for communal worship we are empowered to find peace and strength for work in the world.

"Quakers" or "Friends"

Formally Quakers are the Religious Society of Friends and hence often refer to each other as "Friends". The public more commonly refer to them as Quakers. More than twenty seven thousand people attend Quaker meetings for worship in these islands. These quiet times of seeking the presence of God are held in about 500 places, many of them Quaker owned Friends Meeting Houses. Go to Find a Quaker Meeting to find about where there are Quaker meetings in the Channel Isles, the Isle of Man, England, Scotland and Wales.

Quaker Witness

Since our foundation in the 1600s in England Quakers have tried to make a practical witness to our religious convictions. Quakers are especially active in peace work, human rights and social reform. Go to Peace and Social Witness for more about this work.



 

Alison Prout
173 Euston Road, London

 
020 7663 1000
alisonp@quaker.org.uk
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