'We are here to draw attention to a venue and event selling itself as family friendly, instead selling weapons that rip families apart.'…
by Rebecca Hardy
US Friends took part in protests at Washington’s Capitol Hill last week, against a wave of violent immigration enforcement in the country.
A staff consultation is underway at the Quiet Company (QC), the hospitality arm of Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM).
A new commission assessing the state of interfaith relations was launched last month. The commission aims to identify ‘indicators of tension and conflict, as well as examples of…
James Timpson, minister of state for Prisons, Probation and Reducing Reoffending, has responded to a letter from Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) raising concern about the wellbeing of…
Quakers have been celebrating the fifth anniversary of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).
The number of people in the UK in ‘very deep poverty’ is at its highest in more than thirty years, a new report from the Quaker-founded Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has…
Civic spaces are increasingly under threat, civic society groups warned at a Quaker-co-hosted conference at Friends House in London last week.
The Library of the Society of Friends has partnered with Senate House Library to develop a London history walk about refugees.
Quakers have been urged not to forget the suffering in Gaza, more than three months on since the ceasefire.
Peace campaigners are calling on Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre (NEC) to cancel a controversial arms fair.
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