4th September 2020

Campaigners welcome pause to airfield plans

by Rebecca Hardy

Quakers have welcomed the news that plans for the RAF Valley station in Anglesey to use Llanbedr Airfield in Wales to develop their training programme have been ‘formally paused’.

4th September 2020

The Penn Club in ‘perilous position’

by Rebecca Hardy

The Quaker-affiliated Penn Club is in a ‘perilous position’ after bookings have stayed significantly low since the lockdown.

4th September 2020

Trump pardon rejected

by Rebecca Hardy

The Susan B Anthony Museum has rejected Donald Trump’s pardon of the eponymous Quaker suffragist who was arrested in 1872 for voting when it was illegal for women to do so.

4th September 2020

Quakerism and GreenSpirit movement

by Rebecca Hardy

A member of Malton Meeting wrote a magazine article last month about the affinity between Quakerism and the GreenSpirit community.

Friends split on XR
4th September 2020

Friends split on XR

by Rebecca Hardy
XR Friends get ready for action
28th August 2020

XR Friends get ready for action

by Rebecca Hardy
28th August 2020

‘Debt of gratitude’

by Rebecca Hardy

The director of Quaker Social Action (QSA) has said that the organisation owes ‘a debt of gratitude’ to Quaker Homeless Action (QHA) for their merger later this year.

28th August 2020

Ministers challenged on Channel crossings

by Rebecca Hardy

The representative body for Quakers in Britain joined faith bodies and human rights campaigners in urging the government to end dangerous Channel crossings by introducing safe and…

28th August 2020

Irish Quakers discuss sustainability

by Rebecca Hardy

Almost one hundred people signed up for a ‘Re-imagining Society Sustainably’ online conference last month to consider how to rebuild society after the pandemic.

28th August 2020

Book on local Quaker history

by Rebecca Hardy

A Herefordshire Friend has written a book about the history of Quakers in Leominster.

28th August 2020

BYM joins call for Gift Aid relief

by Rebecca Hardy

Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has joined a campaign calling for a temporary increase in Gift Aid to help charities struggling with a sizeable drop in fundraising income due to the…

21st August 2020

Quakers campaign to ‘Build Back Better’

by Rebecca Hardy

Quakers have been organising action to support the Build Back Better (BBB) campaign that was launched in April to galvanise a green and just recovery from the pandemic. Rebecca…