The Little Rebels Award won by a Quaker author last year has been paused due to lack of funding.
Cambridgeshire Quakers held a ‘Climate Fresk’ workshop last week to engage more people in eco-friendly practices.
The word ‘peace’ has been voted ‘word of the year’ by almost 5,000 young people across the United Kingdom.
Quaker Vegan Witness (QVW) has launched a ‘Vegan for Lent’ initiative, providing Friends with ‘daily reflection points’.
Two US Quakers were arrested at an interfaith ‘sit-in’ at the Minneapolis/Saint Paul airport last month. Laura Kressin and Julie Doherty, from Twin Cities Faith Meeting (TCFM),…
Quakers across Asia and the West Pacific are marking the fifth anniversary of a military coup in Myanmar which overthrew the democratically-elected government.
A Quaker-founded charity in Kenya continues to grow, with around fifty people employed this year.
US Friends took part in protests at Washington’s Capitol Hill last week, against a wave of violent immigration enforcement in the country.
A staff consultation is underway at the Quiet Company (QC), the hospitality arm of Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM).
A new commission assessing the state of interfaith relations was launched last month. The commission aims to identify ‘indicators of tension and conflict, as well as examples of…
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