Campaigners have said that drilling in the oil field would do little to reduce UK energy bills or dependence on imports, and would drive up carbon emissions.…
by Rebecca Hardy
The Quaker Tapestry in Cumbria is to close next month. Trustees made the announcement last week saying the much-loved Kendal institution would close from 13 December.
A ninety-year-old Quaker skydived for charity last week.
Quakers joined others in urging COP30 to confront the climate impact of war and military spending.
The Quaker philanthropist Elizabeth Cadbury has been awarded a blue plaque at a Birmingham school she opened 119 years ago.
Senior figures in the Green Party voiced their support for white poppies during Remembrance last week.
Coventry Quakers supported a peace lecture on domestic abuse earlier this month.
The Quaker-founded Wandsworth Prison Welfare Trust (WPWT) is launching a Christmas appeal to provide men leaving HMP Wandsworth this winter with warm clothes.
Hammersmith Friends are holding Quaker Quest events in a bid to ‘start a dialogue about what is important spiritually and morally’.
Quakers are taking part in the annual Conferences of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30) in Brazil this week.
2024 was the warmest year on record, after a decade of record hottest years, the Quaker-founded Climate Majority Project (CMP) revealed last month.
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