Lancaster Friends engage with local businesses
Lancaster Friends mark Living Wage Week
by Tara Craig
13th November 2015
Lancaster Quakers have marked Living Wage Week (1-7 November) by writing to local businesses.
Friends wrote of their interest in engaging businesses in conversation about the Living Wage. They also offered to explain it to any businesses who were still unaware of it.
Lancaster Meeting was invited to lead a national Quaker Living Wage campaign following Quaker Equality Week, which took place in March. Friends were asked to encourage Quakers and others to raise awareness of the difference between the Living Wage, as defined by the Living Wage Foundation, and chancellor George Osborne’s suggested ‘National Living Wage’. The Meeting has been actively promoting the Living Wage since 2014.
