World Quaker Day 2025

We were asked by the Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC), to share the following:

On World Quaker Day, Sunday 5 October, the Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) invites you to join with others around the globe to Love Your Neighbour, with the guiding Bible passage Galatians 5:14: ‘For the whole law can be summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbour as yourself.”’

For those who aren’t familiar, World Quaker Day has been happening for about 12 years. It involves Quakers (of whom there are roughly 400,000 globally) pretty much everywhere they are (about 100 countries), and celebrating the fact that we are a world community of Friends, doing something together all in common.

It coincides with ‘World Communion Sunday’ on the first Sunday in October, when our ecumenical brother and sister churches also celebrate the global nature of our faith. In Britain it is also the final day of Quaker Week, when Friends in Britain seek to raise the profile of Quakers, and show that newcomers are welcome. 

This year, the theme Love Your Neighbour feels especially pertinent while there are many forces encouraging us to hate our neighbour – from conflict and crisis, to untruths and unfairness.

Join us in exploring what Love can do: you might attend one of the World Quaker Day events being planned by Friends around Britain: in Birmingham, Chichester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Oxford, Abingdon and Southampton.

Or perhaps there’s still time to organise your own activities. Here are some ways you might take part:

  1. Serve Your Neighbours: Organise an act of service that addresses needs in nearby communities. This could include acts of solidarity with refugees or migrants.
  2. Welcome Your Neighbours: Invite your local community or regular users of the meeting house or Friends Church to a service or Meeting for Worship.
  3. Connect with Other Faith Communities: Plan a delegation to bring greetings to another place of worship in your area, and invite a reciprocal visit.
  4. Build International Quaker Connections: Reach out to a meeting or Friends Church in another country. You might arrange a virtual (or in-person) visit, exchange letters or prayers, or learn about each other’s worship styles.
  5. Share a Message of Love: The words ‘love your neighbour’ occur eight times in the Bible, and are illustrated by the parable of the Good Samaritan. Plan a meeting for learning, all-age worship or children’s session on the theme.

Find event details and resources to help you plan your own activities at www.worldquakerday.org.

And don’t forget to let us know how you plan to participate by completing the online form also at the webpage above, or by emailing comms@fwcc.world