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…

21st August 2020

BYM consults staff to reduce costs

by Rebecca Hardy

Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has been consulting staff over a wide range of cost-cutting measures as it announced the Covid-19 pandemic ‘has had a significant effect on its…

21st August 2020

Quaker MP says Covid-19 financial support ‘not enough’

by Rebecca Hardy

The Quaker and MP Ruth Cadbury has written to the chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak to call on the government to ‘fix the gaps’ in both the Coronavirus Job Retention…

21st August 2020

Roots of Resistance changes name

by Rebecca Hardy

The Roots of Resistance (RoR) group that mobilised hundreds of Friends to protest against last year’s Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair has changed…

14th August 2020

VJ Day 75 plans ignore nuclear bombings

by Rebecca Hardy

The Peace Pledge Union (PPU) has strongly criticised British ministers after Boris Johnson failed to mention the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki when announcing plans…

14th August 2020

Exeter Friends in Hiroshima peace vigil

by Rebecca Hardy

Exeter Quakers held a socially distanced peace vigil exactly seventy-five years after the second atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki.

14th August 2020

Friends House to reopen

by Rebecca Hardy

Friends House in London will reopen from September 1, it was announced last week. The site will be open for meetings of up to thirty delegates and the cafe will also be reopening…