From the archive: Opportunities for service

Janet Scott describes how Friends continued to find ways to help others

by Janet Scott 21st September 2018

As the first world war ground on in 1918, Friends were striving in various ways to give assistance and support where they could. For instance, the Friend on 23 August contained a report from Bootham School detailing how the pupils wrote out 6,000 ration books for the new rationing scheme:

More than two thousand hours were given to hoeing and haymaking in the district, and £32 of wages were sent by the boys to the Old Scholars’ War Time Service Fund.