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Cumbrian Quakers recovering from floods
Friends in west Cumbria are continuing to get back to normality following the flooding of the past two weeks. Keswick Meeting House was badly flooded but has been cleared of debris and is being disinfected and dried out with dehumidifiers. -
Quaker Business Conference 2009 – Looking at Success
What is success these days for Quakers in the business world? Over forty-five Friendly business people (seventy-five per cent in membership, twenty-five per cent in sympathy, with a further twenty-five people prevented) met on an evening and throughout the following day, for Quaker Business Conference 2009 to work this year’s… -
Quaker online discussion group relaunched
Friends have been using a new version of the Quaker discussion forum at www.quaker.org.uk to share thoughts about Quaker worship and beliefs, Quaker work and running Quaker Meetings in Britain. This was launched with new ‘Advices and boundaries’ following concerns about how discussions on previous forums were moderated. The new… -
Quakers on the public’s radars
Eighty per cent of the British population have heard of Quakers. This statistic was one of many that came about following a professional market research survey of 1,000 individuals in England, Scotland and Wales, commissioned by Quaker Quest Network. The research was ordered to find out about understanding of and…
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Keswick Friends begin clean up operation
Quakers in Keswick, Cumbria are already going about the repairs to their Meeting house, which last Thursday night was flooded for the second time in five years. Michael Evans (clerk of Keswick Quaker Meeting) told the Friend on Monday that they were pleasantly surprised at how quickly they had been…
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Keswick Quakers hit by flooding
Quakers in north Cumbria were fearing the worst on Friday as their Keswick Meeting house remained flooded. Clerk of Keswick Quakers Michael Evans told The Friend that the Meeting house last flooded in 2005 and since then £6,000 had been spent on flood defences such as barriers.
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‘Quaker’: what does it mean to the outside world?
I know all sorts of Quakers who know all sorts of things, but I’ve never met a single one who has a clue what the word ‘Quaker’ means to people who aren’t Quakers. I find it curious that we remain so ignorant. I hear stories every week of members of…
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Compassion plaque unveiled at Ramallah Quaker meeting
Ramallah Friends were among the first to endorse Karen Armstrong’s new Charter for Compassion. A Charter plaque was unveiled at their Meeting house on 12 November. The charter is an attempt by religious writer and commentator Armstrong to bring together the highest common principles of the world’s faiths., She began…
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Norwegian Quakers denied Gaza access
Norwegian Friends last week returned disappointed from an attempt to make contact with the kindergartens and trauma counselling projects for children in Gaza that they fund. Kvekerhjelp (Quaker Service Norway) representatives had originally planned to visit many of the fifteen or so kindergartens they run, and had made the necessary… -
Quakers seek government progress on drug use
The ongoing situation following the sacking by the home secretary of professor David Nutt from his position on the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, and the subsequent resignations by David Nutt’s colleagues, was discussed last weekend at the trustees’ meeting of Quaker Action on Alcohol and Drugs (QAAD).…
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