The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW) have nominated two organisations – Mwatana for Human Rights and Campaign Against Arms…
A former Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) employee has made a series of allegations over social media about her treatment at Friends House, accusing the organisation of being part of a…
Manchester and Warrington Area Meeting (AM) has decided to drop the term ‘overseer’ and to substitute the term ‘pastoral care team/member’ ‘wherever possible’. The move…
About forty Friends from Britain Yearly Meeting met online last month for the annual gathering of the Quaker Africa interest Group (QAIG).
Friends have formed a national mental health group in response to the challenges caused by the pandemic. Seventy-seven people attended the second meeting of the Quaker Voices on…
Safeguarding consultants have concluded that there are no high-risk cases needing further investigation at Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM), after thoroughly reviewing historic…
A Quaker-backed group started by a local North Wales Friend is organising two online citizens’ forums to debate the climate crisis and how Wales can move to a greener, fairer…
The inequalities facing people seeking asylum have got worse in the past year, Friends heard at the first open meeting of the Quaker Asylum and Refugee Network (QARN) in 2021.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has joined sixteen faith bodies to call on the UK government to immediately ban the use of public money to fund fossil fuel projects overseas.
London Quakers are proposing to form a pan-London charity encompassing all London Area Meetings (AMs), in a bid to simplify structures as the number of members of the Society…
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