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 Events
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20 Apr 2024
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Northern CND & Peace groups gathering
In Manchester, 12-4pm. Details here. come together, share skills and knowledge, and discuss the challenges facing peace campaigners.
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21 Apr 2024
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Meeting for worship at Faslane
Gather at the gate of the Trident Nuclear Weapons base, 11am for an hour, with time for conversation and refreshments afterwards. Contact Mary Alice - [email protected] - for more information
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30 Apr 2024 to 4 Jun 2024
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Opening to Quaker Conciliation
Woodbrooke online course DETAILS
Featured pages
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Publicity, information & outreach
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Updates and reports
View and download from this page recent Updates, Annual reports and Financial Statements
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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.
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Ukraine
Some links and resources at a time of crisis: - This page has external links to resources that we hope are helpful in building understanding and in promoting peace in relation to the war in Ukraine.
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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.
NFPB Voices
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Defend our Juries
by Phoebe Spence, East Cheshire Area Quaker Meeting This campaign Defend our Juries (https://defendourjuries.org/) arose from the experience of climate protesters in court: judges precluding what the jury could hear, motivation, no mention of fuel poverty or climate crisis, etc. Jurors have an absolute right to acquit a defendant according to their conscience. Essentially it … Read more
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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Connecting for peace
As well as our formal members’ meetings that happen four times a year (mostly as hybrid events), Northern Friends Peace Board is arranging a number of additional opportunities for our members and other interested Friends to meeting together for reflection, discussion, connection and learning. Online meetings At our most recent online session, for instance, Friends … Read more
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Publication on current peace challenges – invitation
The wars in Ukraine and Gaza are distressing, causing horrifying levels of death, and devastation to ordinary people now and into the future. Northern Friends Peace Board has, during the past two years, sought to promote understanding of the nature of the conflicts and also of possible routes to peace. The very nature of war … Read more
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Military spending – ‘War Costs us the Earth’
In 2024, there is a growing chorus of political voices from across the world, our own government being no exception, calling for an increase in spending on weapons. More than that, some parts of the armed forces establishment are encouraging a readiness for war in society more generally. This comes as international relations are under … Read more