At least eight international Quaker groups have announced they will be disengaging from the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
Early business As Storm Darragh swept parts of the UK, thirty-six Quakers made it to Friends House for Meeting for Sufferings (MfS), with almost fifty attending online. Opening…
The Quaker Socialist Society (QSS) has announced that the Quaker lawyer Abimbola Johnson is to be the 2025 Salter Lecturer.
Quakers in Kyiv have highlighted the bravery of volunteers working to protect human and animal life in Ukraine. The Friends shared a picture on social media of a young volunteer…
Bury St Edmunds Friends launched a series of public discussions about climate and nature at their Meeting house last month.
Friends House won a Bronze award for Best Conference Venue at the London Venue and Catering Awards last month. The judges recognised the Quiet Company team for ‘great…
Glasgow Quakers explored community action beyond COP29 this week. The session ‘Making Sense of COP29’ on 2 December included a first-person report from the international…
News that the US is supplying Ukraine with landmines has been described as a ‘bitter blow’ by Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM).
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) said that arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israeli and Hamas leaders send ‘a clear signal no party to this…
The Quaker Arts Network (QAN) has released a calendar for 2025, drawing on its Loving Earth Project.
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