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…

Bayard Rustin pardoned in redress for LGBTQ charges
14th February 2020

Bayard Rustin pardoned in redress for LGBTQ charges

by Rebecca Hardy
14th February 2020

Central England Quakers forms new climate group

by Rebecca Hardy

Central England Quakers (CEQ) has discerned that its low carbon work should now continue as CEQ Climate Emergency Action (CEQ CEA) with subgroups and co-clerks. The decision was…

14th February 2020

QGSDC gathering

by Rebecca Hardy

Members of the Quaker Gender and Sexual Diversity Community (QGSDC) gathered at Westminster Meeting House this month to hear talks from Britain Yearly Meeting staff ten years after…

14th February 2020

QHA winter shelter in second year

by Rebecca Hardy

Quaker Homeless Action (QHA) has reported a busy season for the second year of its London winter shelter. The centre in a church in Gospel Oak in north London opened a year ago in…

14th February 2020

Friend’s homeless book turned into a play

by Rebecca Hardy

A Quaker who wrote and self-published a book about homelessness has had his work turned into a play. Norwich Friend Robert Ashton’s Any Spare Change? has been adapted into a…

14th February 2020

BYM on Holocaust Memorial Day

by Rebecca Hardy

Marigold Bentley, head of peace programmes and faith relations for Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM), has said that it was especially important that Quakers participated in Holocaust…

14th February 2020

Meeting for Sufferings: Friends consider gender and diversity

by Rebecca Hardy

Friends came together on 1 February to reflect on the issue of diversity and inclusion following the second conference on the subject, which took place at Woodbrooke last month.…