Friends hold Quaker Week climate vigils

‘Our children and grandchildren will ask us what we were doing as our government turned their backs on climate commitments.'

Hundreds of Quakers across England and Scotland held climate vigils last month for Quaker Week.

Saffron Walden was just one of many Meetings to gather in silence to urge the prime minister not to invest in new fossil fuel projects. Of particular concern was the government’s decision to issue 130 new licences for oil drilling in the North Sea, contradicting the Paris Climate Agreement’s targets.

Lizzi Rawlinson-Mills, from Saffron Walden Meeting, told the Saffron Walden Reporter: ‘Our children and grandchildren will ask us what we were doing as our government turned their backs on climate commitments.

‘Children see things with a clarity that is worth our attention!’

Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) said that the vigils reflected the theme of this year’s Quaker Week, ‘Simple. Radical. Spiritual’, and ‘how Quakers’ simple spirituality helps them work for radical change’. ‘From Bristol to Huddersfield to Okehampton, Quakers stood outside Meeting houses, railway stations and playgrounds, to ask the prime minister not to invest in new fossil fuel projects,’ BYM said, on the Quakers in Britain website.

Quaker Week in England and Scotland began on 23 September and ended on World Quaker Day, 1 October.

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