West Scotland Area Meeting covers a vast area, including the inner islands and the Mull of Kintyre. This presents obvious travelling problems for those who need to attend Area…
It’s the end of a long, tiring day. A hundred teenagers and volunteers come together, sitting on chairs, cross-legged or lying down… the floor is a sea of flickering…
‘As representatives of the Religious Society of Friends in Britain, called Quakers, we offer our congratulations on the occasion of your Diamond Jubilee. We give thanks…
Last Thursday was a big day for Leicester. The Diamond Jubilee tour started in our city and, more particularly, on the campus of De Montfort University where I am a speech and…
Each of us has distinctive gifts and talents, but every day we are faced with bad news about the world, bad news concerning our local communities, our country or the international…
A bicycle-recycling project run by Hull Quakers is raising funds for a cash-strapped charity for the homeless in that northern town.
Our daughter died at the age of ten following a road traffic accident. She was on a life support machine, which was switched off in a matter of days, not weeks or months or even…
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