Climate Crisis
From January 2020 to August 2025 Woodbrooke was funded by Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) to deliver The Climate Crisis: Spiritual Learning and Nurture project. This offered resources and learning opportunities to enable Friends to act and to live our faith with sustainability and care for the earth at heart. Woodbrooke continues to offer courses and workshops related to climate justice and earthcare.
Quaker Eco Church Network
The Quaker Eco Church Network meets Quarterly on Zoom. Come along to be inspired and connect with Quaker meetings across the UK who are working towards A Rocha’s Eco Church Accreditation to make our Meeting Houses more sustainable.
A Rocha UK’s Eco Church programme is a learning community of churches of all denominations shapes and sizes. It provides a framework to take practical action on caring for God’s earth. You can find more general information about the Eco Church network on A Rocha UK's website.
Property and Resource Sustainability Database
Quakers in Britain is building on Woodbrooke's work to connect meetings that are discerning the best use of their properties and resources, including further developing Woodbrooke’s prototype property database. As part of this work, they are currently gathering information from meetings that have already made changes following their discernment.
This will enable us to share collective learning and document the Yearly Meeting’s journey towards sustainability. If you have experience to share, or would like to see the resources available, do please get in touch with:
John Dash – BYM Property Management Adviser
JohnD@quaker.org.uk 020 7663 1055
BYM's Climate Justice Work
As part of Quakers in Britain, Quaker Peace and Social Witness (QPSW) focuses on political and campaigning work around Climate Justice. They work at a national level to build sustained peace and social justice, such as running peacebuilding projects overseas, and campaigning on behalf of Quakers.
QPSW also helps Quakers in Britain to live out their faith. They provide resources to enable local Quakers to take action.
The Faith in Action team provides grassroots support to individual friends who are undertaking or wish to undertake witness, including convening networks of friends around various issues.
Quaker Spiritual Insights in Responding to Climate Crisis
Woodbrooke has produced a set of study materials using Quaker spiritual insights to help Friends reflect on, and discern their responses to the developing ecological crisis. The materials, which can be used by individuals or in meeting study groups, do not propose specific solutions or actions. Instead, they aim to enable Friends to reflect on this issue, and discern what spirit-led responses are required at this time.
Click here to explore and download the study materials
Climate Workshops for Your Quaker Community
Bring Woodbrooke learning to where you are with our packages specially designed for your community. With a range of topics, prepared and facilitated by our experienced tutor team, you can explore and learn together deepening your understanding and connection.
Below is a list of our current Woodbrooke Where You Are climate workshops which can be delivered in a variety of formats to your Quaker community.
An opportunity for meetings to deepen their understanding of our faith, spirituality and climate justice. A day of creative explorations and discussions based on the QPSW booklet, 'What is Climate Justice?'
A practical workshop that enables your meeting to explore what it could do in response to the climate crisis.
Grounded in the Spirit, we will look honestly at where we need to make changes in how we use our resources and how we might go about doing that.
