Ellis Brooks and Izzy Cartwright, from Quaker Peace & Social Witness’s peace education team, led a session on Hope and imagination: peace education in 2024. Peace…
With the historical injustices of colonialism on the agenda for Yearly Meeting, Reparations and working in partnership: the Quaker Africa Interest Group (QAIG) Approach was an…
In Woodbrooke: the next phase of our vision, Simon Best introduced sixteen Friends to Mandy Cooper, Woodbrooke’s new CEO. She was impressed by Friends’ enthusiasm and drive,…
At Friends Trusts Ltd, John Dash introduced thirteen Friends to the work of the organisation that holds the ownership of most Quaker properties. While Area Meetings (AMs) are…
A Yearly Meeting (YM) preparation session on Building and maintaining our Yearly Meeting community was hosted by Yearly Meeting Agenda Committee and the Group to Review Yearly…
A preparation session on Truth and integrity in public life was held by Yearly Meeting Agenda Committee (YMAC). The seventy-six Friends who gathered first watched a video…
In Peace Works Zimbabwe (PWZ), Don Rowe, clerk to the group, elaborated to a select nine Friends on the work he introduced at the previous QAIG gathering. After the closure of the…
A special interest group on Engaging with the new government was led by BYM’s public affairs team. Grace Da Costa and Billy Vaughan said the team was keen to be involved in…
On Wednesday, Quaker chaplains were out in force, beginning with Quaker chaplaincy: What Quaker chaplains do and are you interested in being one? Naomi Major, of Quaker Life,…
At a session on Alternative forms of Quaker community, Jude Acton and Rachel Matthews, of Quaker Life, talked about what central support was available for Friends whose Quaker…
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