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Invitation for George Fox woodland commemoration
Quakers have been invited to contribute a commemoration of George Fox to a ‘Wall of Answered Prayer’.
Funding ‘energy champions’
Central England Quakers (CEQ) are supporting a joint fuel poverty project to create a network of ‘energy champions’.
Suspended sentence for Just Stop Oil Quaker
A Quaker received a six-month suspended sentence last month after climbing onto a gantry on the M25 as part of a Just Stop Oil (JSO) protest.
Quaker lockdown community marks 1,001 days
A Quaker community that was created to help Friends in lockdown marked its 1,001st online worship this month.
Auction of Quaker abolitionist archives
An archive of handwritten letters and printed material compiled by a leading Quaker abolitionist is going to auction next month.
Call for debate into ‘military space race’
Quakers are supporting calls for wider public discussion into military expansion into space.
Call to ‘defend democracy and human rights’
There is a pressing need to defend our human rights this year, Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has said, as more anti-democratic measures are in the pipeline. Writing on the Quakers in Britain website, Grace Da Costa says that significant legislation brought to parliament this year includes the Bill of Rights...
Friend’s 500-mile walk for rainforest
A Manchester Friend is walking 500 miles in the next twelve months to raise funds for a lawsuit to protect Malaysian people from environmental exploitation.
‘Ubuntu’ agenda for 2024 World Plenary
Tim Gee, general secretary of Friends Worldwide Committee for Consultation (FWCC), introduced ‘Ubuntu’, the 2024 World Plenary theme, to London Quakers earlier this month.
QCEA study tour a ‘major success’
Quaker Concern for European Affairs (QCEA) has said that its latest study tour ‘proved to be a major success with more than twenty participants from all over the world’.