What we do

Inform the public about Quakers

We tell the public about Quakers using social media advertising, social media channels, website and online quizzes.

  • Our social media adverts have been shown to 1.5 million people
  • We have 1,563 followers on Facebook, 1,781 on Instagram and 1,421 on TikTok. (August 2025)
  • Over 7,000 people have signed up to receive our newsletters
  • 15,000 people visit our website every year
  • Over 5,000 people have completed our Quaker values quiz

Visit our social media channels: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok

Create content about Quakers and signpost to other information

  • We create articles, videos and podcasts to explain who Quakers are and what they do.
  • We signpost enquirers to sources of information produced by others and opportunities to meet Quakers and try an online Meeting.

Watch our ‘What do people do in a Quaker Meeting’ video.

You can embed this in your Meeting’s website.

Meet enquirers online

Every Tuesday evening we meet new enquirers at our online Quaker Lives sessions. 30-40 people join us each week with 4-6 being first-time attendees. They;

  • learn a little about Quakers,
  • hear about a Quaker’s life,
  • experience a short meeting for worship and
  • have an opportunity to ask questions.

Enquirers from these sessions have gone on to attend Yearly Meeting and become attenders and members of Local Meetings.

 

How we support Meetings

Introduce enquirers to their Local Meeting

We help enquirers find their Local Meeting and offer to introduce them to the Meeting. Since July 2024, we have introduced 253 enquirers and provided information about a Local Meeting to 386 people.

See the results of our survey of enquirers and Meetings for March & April 2025.

311 Meetings currently use the service. Learn more and sign up.

Produce posters and leaflets

We produce leaflets that can be used electronically and printed for use by Meetings. See our leaflets on:

An introduction to Quaker Meetings

Why young people are attracted to Quakers

And our Open Day poster!

If you would like printed versions please contact us.

Support local outreach and share information

We run monthly online meetings where Friends share their outreach plans and experiences. We are also starting to share experiences online. We provide advice for individual local outreach initiatives.

Watch the video of a presentation by Newark Friends at our AGM Day sharing how they created a vibrant new Meeting from scratch.

What we would like to do

Create more ways to inform the public

Create a series of videos with Quakers answering the questions enquirers ask. Watch our pilot video on ‘why I go to Quaker Meeting

We know enquirers engage with online quizzes. Over half of the people who sign up for our newsletter complete our Quaker values quiz and leave interesting comments. We would like to create new quizzes to help us inform the public about Quakers.

Help build Friends’ outreach confidence

We hear regularly that Friends would like to be more confident in answering the questions that enquirers and newcomers ask.

We have a wealth of experience answering these questions and would like to find a way to support Friends’ to gain confidence in engaging with enquirers and newcomers.

 

Create podcasts from Geoffrey Durham’s Being a Quaker book

Enquirers tell us they greatly value Geoffrey’s book. We wish to create a podcast based on the book.

We published the third edition of Being a Quaker in July 2024.

We need your support to continue our work

Our work us funded by donations from Quaker Meetings and individual Friends, and  grants from Quaker Trusts.

If every Local Meeting could donate £10 per month our initiative would be sustainable and help halt, and perhaps reverse, the decline in Quaker numbers in Britain.