What are we for? Who are we?
We promote Quaker principles in business and the workplace, because we believe they are good in themselves. This way, business earns a surplus and spends it - ethically. And, charities and public bodies deliver their services with ethics at their cores, too. Ethics means a practical, loving concern for the common good, physically, mentally, spiritually, rooted in collectively seeking the right way forward.
We are a growing network of Quakers and others; most of us are Quakers presently in membership and all of us are in sympathy with what Friends stand for in the world. We are ever open to the truth, wherever it is found. Some of us work in the charity and public sectors at various levels of responsibility, others in the profit making sector, where we are either self employed, own and manage our own business, or work for manufacturing or service companies.
We are widely, thinly spread across Local Quaker Meetings (there will be one in your area). The Quakers & Business (Q&B) Group is the network through which we find each other easily when we need. It also facilitites our collective voice. We welcome all as members, not just Quakers, who are in sympathy with our aims. You can join online here.
Q&B is a listed informal group within Britain Yearly Meeting, and a registered Charity regulated by the Charity Commission. We have members in other Yearly Meetings and are in touch with similar networks elsewhere in the world. You can find our Constitution in the Documents section. We have a set of business principles, and work to realise our vision, mission & priority goals, which can be seen here.
What do we do?
We publish:
- Our business principles summary statement, and
- Our book Good Business: Ethics at Work - Advices and Queries on Personal Standards of Conduct at Work: available from Friends House Bookshop. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of our book go to support Quaker Social Action.
We have a Quakers & Business group on Linkedin. Join here.