Romford Friends marked Hiroshima Day by planting seeds from a ginkgo biloba tree that survived the atomic bomb blast in 1945.
Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW) has released a video based on a climate workshop it held this summer. The presentation on YouTube outlines the importance of the COP26…
The Quaker poet Philip Gross ran a workshop last month with Chichester Friends as part of the Chichester Festival. The two ‘Words and Silence’ sessions on 3 July also included…
Milton Keynes Quakers are celebrating their council’s decision to call on the government to consider the merits of introducing a ‘climate income’.
Cuba Yearly Meeting has issued a statement after thousands of Cubans took to the streets, driven by food shortages, high prices and other anti-government grievances.
Almost half of the people made workless under the 2020 furlough scheme remained out of work for the rest of the year, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF).
Quakers helped launch a West Midlands climate assembly this month in preparation for the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26). The event on 20 July was…
Over 1,800 people have already booked their place on this year’s Yearly Meeting Gathering (YMG) – thought to be one of the highest numbers in recent years.. Clare Scott Booth,…
East Kent Quakers welcomed Friend Liz Cooper last month as she cycled from Broadstairs to Canterbury Meeting House as part of a relay leading up to the 26th UN Climate Change…
A Sunderland Friend has spoken about the role that Quaker women played in the movement to end thhe slave trade. The talk by Ann Smith was made for the virtual unveiling of a blue…
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