5th February 2021

Friends join push for fair tax

by Rebecca Hardy

Quakers have welcomed a campaign launched by Church Action for Tax Justice to push for more fairness in taxation.

5th February 2021

Katherine Barclay marriage certificate for sale

by Rebecca Hardy

The marriage certificate of Quaker Katherine Barclay and Daniel Bell is being auctioned on the website eBay, with bids starting at £195.

5th February 2021

The Penn Club to close

by Rebecca Hardy

The historic Quaker-founded Penn Club is closing just months after celebrations for its centenary birthday were cancelled. In a statement on its website, the Penn Club board wrote…

29th January 2021

Quakers lobby on controversial bill

by Rebecca Hardy

Quaker lobbying was praised as the controversial Overseas Operations Bill was debated in the House of Commons last week. The bill passed through the Commons in November despite…

29th January 2021

London Friends explore debt and impoverishment

by Rebecca Hardy

The narrative that ‘all economic debt is bad’ is damaging to society and should be challenged, said Mark Thomas, founder of ‘The 99% Organisation’, at a Build Back Better…

29th January 2021

Consider seeds of violence, says AFSC

by Rebecca Hardy

The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) has called on the US to examine seeds of violence there, following the events leading up to Joe Biden’s inauguration when white…

Gold Medal for Jocelyn Bell Burnell
29th January 2021

Gold Medal for Jocelyn Bell Burnell

by Rebecca Hardy
29th January 2021

Quaker gets MBE for sponsored walks

by Rebecca Hardy

Newbury Friend Ruth Saunders has been awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours List. The Quaker centenarian received the award for her sponsored walk for Thames Valley Air Ambulance…

29th January 2021

BYM and Africa Section Friends meet

by Rebecca Hardy

Sixty-six Friends from Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) and from YMs across Africa came together online to ‘visit’ with each other last month. Job Bikokwa, executive secretary of…

22nd January 2021

To open or not to open

by Rebecca Hardy

Places of worship are exempt under the latest restrictions, expected to last until spring, but faith leaders have expressed caution. While most Meetings have moved online,…

Bells ring out for Treaty
22nd January 2021

Bells ring out for Treaty

by Rebecca Hardy
22nd January 2021

Destitution growing, says JRF

by Rebecca Hardy

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has called for more sustained assistance for people experiencing extreme poverty, in the third of its destitution studies. The report released…