13th November 2020

Postponed COP26 inspires action

by Rebecca Hardy

Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has joined more than sixty UK faith representatives in writing to the prime minister about emission targets, as campaigners come together to mark the…

White poppies at Oxford Meeting
13th November 2020

White poppies at Oxford Meeting

by Rebecca Hardy
13th November 2020

Overseas Operations Bill passes through Commons

by Rebecca Hardy

Quakers have welcomed the news that a judge-led review into the handling of allegations against troops will run in parallel to the controversial Overseas Operations (Service…

13th November 2020

Friends invited to Fringe

by Rebecca Hardy

A Cambridge Friend has set up a website for Quakers to post details of ‘fringe events’ taking place to coincide with Yearly Meeting (YM).

6th November 2020

‘Remember Yemen’, says PPU

by Rebecca Hardy

This year’s Remembrance Day risks being a ‘festival of forgetting’, the Peace Pledge Union (PPU) has warned, if the humanitarian crisis in war-torn Yemen is ignored, as well…

6th November 2020

Quakers explore ‘heaven on earth’

by Rebecca Hardy

The Quaker Socialist Society (QSS) has announced that this year’s Salter Lecture, usually given at the time of Yearly Meeting, will take place online.

6th November 2020

QCEA co-launch guide to gender and inclusivity

by Rebecca Hardy

Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) is to launch a guide and videos providing strategies to overcome resistance to gender and inclusivity work in an online event this month.

Car crashes into Bournville Meeting grounds
6th November 2020

Car crashes into Bournville Meeting grounds

by Rebecca Hardy
6th November 2020

‘Make values visible’, says Quaker business group

by Rebecca Hardy

The Quakers and Business Group (Q&B) has said that it wants to ‘make values more visible in business’, with its annual conference based on this theme.

30th October 2020

Breakthrough for nuclear weapons ban

by Rebecca Hardy

The UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) has been ratified by the fiftieth state, meaning that it will enter into international legal force ninety days later, on…

30th October 2020

31 Friends House staff redundant

by Rebecca Hardy

Thirty-one members of Friends House staff have opted to take voluntary redundancy after a consultation period to consider how Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) can meet the financial…

8,000th issue for The Inquirer
30th October 2020

8,000th issue for The Inquirer

by Rebecca Hardy