Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has announced the dates for the 2021 Yearly Meeting Gathering (YMG) which will be held online due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The numbers of people signing up for Woodbrooke courses increased by over a third in 2020, the Quaker centre has reported.Total attendance for its online worship in 2020 was also…
The Quaker school Leighton Park has been awarded the 2020 Award for Outstanding Local Community Involvement.
The steering group of the Quaker ‘Experiment with Light’ has launched a new website and app.
A teenage Friend has criticised the UK army for misusing the language of female empowerment to target pro-military messages at girls and young women.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has confirmed that it will not be taking the successful appeal won by the ‘Stansted Fifteen’ earlier this year to the Supreme Court. Quaker…
Richmond Meeting has launched a fundraiser to raise money to restock its Meeting house garden. Antonia Swinson, from the Meeting, told the Friend that the Pledges4Plants initiative…
London Quakers (LQ) have launched a new Zoom group for Friends in the capital to worship and talk together. Fred Ashmore told the Friend that the group was created to build up the…
Locked-down Friends have been using the pandemic as an opportunity to embrace podcasts, reflecting an overall boom in the medium over the last twelve months.
Land owned by the Quaker mental health institution The Retreat is under a review into what areas should be granted greenbelt status in York.
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