Meeting for Sufferings: Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW)
'On the issues being supported centrally, peace and climate felt like existential threats, and were therefore not dropped.'
Offering Friends an update on QPSW, which had been restructured in 2021, Oliver Robertson, head of worship and witness, said that the department looked at the links between various social issues, which other organisations didn’t pick up. The emphasis now was on supporting Quakers where they were. Friends sometimes wrote to MfS asking for action on particular topics, but much of the work Quakers were most proud of had not begun centrally.
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