This year’s Quaker Truth and Integrity Award will go to both Peter Wilmshurst and Phil Laurie.
Quaker Social Action (QSA) is raising awareness of street homelessness with a music event on a London bookshop barge. The event on 6 September comes as the number of people…
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has urged Friends to contact their MPs to help prevent the ‘burial’ of a viable Palestinian state.
Friends heard new Quaker guidance on how to organise locally-based walking tours at the latest Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) gathering. The resource, described by Dixe Wills,…
Two Quaker European groups are coming together to plan an all-age gathering next year.
The library at Friends House in London hosted the George Padmore Institute (GPI) last month as part of the Black Lives Matter UK’s Festival of Collective Liberation 2025. Over…
Woodbrooke marked the centenary of Quaker Joseph Rowntree’s death with an event this month. As part of the ongoing Rowntree Centenary Celebrations this year, the session on 11…
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has highlighted ways in which Quakers can help community cohesion in the UK.
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