We tell the public about Quakers using social media advertising, social media channels, website and online quizzes.
Visit our social media channels: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok
Watch our ‘What do people do in a Quaker Meeting’ video.
You can embed this in your Meeting’s website.
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;
Enquirers from these sessions have gone on to attend Yearly Meeting and become attenders and members of Local Meetings.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.