Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA)’s work on the role of gender in peace and security issues has been shortlisted for the Engagement and Place Award. The Gender and…
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has said that the new local development workers (LDWs) in Yorkshire and Scotland have strengthened Quakers’ ‘network of local support’.
Bristol Quakers plan to offer workshops in nonviolent activism to help reduce tensions between protesters and the police. Bristol Area Meeting set out its intention in an open…
Quakers and other campaigners have secured a key change to the Overseas Operations Bill.
The Quaker-recognised group Friends with Jewish Connections has been studying the Jerusalem Declaration on Anti-Semitism (JDA).
A Newbury Quaker and former clerk has spoken more about life within the Meeting during the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp.
Woodbrooke has announced that Thomas Penny will be delivering this year’s Swarthmore Lecture ‘Kinder ground: Creating space for truth’.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has backed a call to defend charities after a Conservative MP criticised the sector, following scrutiny of the controversial race report.
The Peace Pledge Union (PPU) has joined two other NGOs in urging Welsh politicians to commit to taking action on armed forces’ visits in schools, which they claim are a ‘fig…
The Quaker Arts Network (QAN) is planning to take its travelling exhibition of the Loving Earth project to the twenty-sixth UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in…
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