The Quaker Socialist Society (QSS) has spoken out about government guidance that schools should refrain from using teaching materials from organisations that have expressed a…
Surrey Quakers feature in an archive collection exploring the local abolition movement to celebrate Black History Month. The material was compiled by the Surrey Heritage team as…
Expanding internet connectivity in rural areas in Africa is key to bringing Friends together through the pandemic, a leading Quaker has said.
A Quaker Meeting in the US has erected a peace pole in its garden.
Friends have expressed dismay that a controversial armed forces bill passed its second reading in parliament last week.
Friends gathered virtually to discuss interconnected European social issues highlighted by the Covid-19 crisis in an ‘online conversation’ set up by Quaker Council for European…
A US Quaker school was among a group of private institutions that have been recently criticised for accepting federal aid for businesses struggling during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Gretchen Castle, general secretary of Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) – World Office, has said that Quakers have much to celebrate despite ‘the depths of…
A Quaker councillor from Winchmore Hill Meeting is working with a social enterprise to drum up old but still usable laptops to cover the digital divide exposed by Covid-19.
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