28th February 2020

Funeral directors sign QSA pledge

by Rebecca Hardy

Funeral directors across the UK have committed to providing transparent pricing by signing a pledge organised by Quaker Social Action (QSA). The Fair Funerals pledge was relaunched…

Collateral Damage poppies at Peace Museum
28th February 2020

Collateral Damage poppies at Peace Museum

by Rebecca Hardy
28th February 2020

Quaker Universalist gathering

by Rebecca Hardy

Thirty people gathered at Friends House, London, this month to consider the topic ‘Language, Truth and Religion’.

28th February 2020

Council of Faith visits at Loughborough Meeting

by Rebecca Hardy

Loughborough Quakers have started an interfaith initiative for their local Council of Faiths designed to bring members closer together.

28th February 2020

Pontefract Friends host climate talk

by Rebecca Hardy

Pontefract Meeting hosted a talk about climate change this month in a bid to raise awareness of the crisis. Andrew Rollinson, a renewable energy specialist, spoke on 9 February…

28th February 2020

Quaker lecturer to give talk to Jewish society

by Rebecca Hardy

The Quaker theologian and Woodbrooke lecturer Benjamin Wood has been invited by the Leeds branch of the Jewish Historical Society of England to give a talk in 2021 about the…

Friends in 1,500-strong protest at British Museum
21st February 2020

Friends in 1,500-strong protest at British Museum

by Rebecca Hardy
21st February 2020

JRF poverty report

by Rebecca Hardy

The risk of poverty has risen for workers in families with children, according to the Quaker-founded Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF).

21st February 2020

End Bahrain complicity, says Roots

by Rebecca Hardy

The Quaker group Roots of Resistance (RoR) stepped up its campaign against the University of Huddersfield this month calling for the institution to end ‘its complicity’ with…

21st February 2020

‘Modern slavery is all around’

by Rebecca Hardy

Modern slavery is all around, a Richmond Quaker told nineteen Friends last month at a London Quakers gathering. Rebecca Baumgartner, a civil servant whose work for the last four…

21st February 2020

Florence Meeting celebrates first birthday

by Rebecca Hardy

Quakers in Florence celebrated their first birthday this month, at the same time as a local magazine published a feature about them.

21st February 2020

Bolton Friend’s film in LGBT+ festival

by Rebecca Hardy

A Quaker from Bolton Meeting will have her film about ‘coming out’ as a gay teenager shown at the Museum of Liverpool this week. Nan to the Rescue by Rosie Adamson-Clark and…