Seven Friends from Blackheath Meeting shared their experiences with Quakers this month of running an event about sustainability commitments. Forty Friends from Meetings across…
Friends were among those who turned up to protest the lavish black-tie dinner hosted by the Aerospace, Defence and Security (ADS) Group for the UK arms trade last week.
Quakers in Leeds have claimed that ambitious plans announced by the council to more than halve its carbon emissions by 2025 are undermined by its commitment to expanding a local…
The Quaker trustee-governed Glebe House has been praised in a Church Times article for its work with teenage boys displaying ‘harmful sexual behaviour’.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has sent a letter to the government questioning its moves to support the aviation industry by reviewing Air Passenger Duty (APD). In an open letter to…
Trustees for West Wiltshire and East Somerset Area Meeting have announced that ‘the sale of Bath Meeting House will be launched by the end of January 2020’.
Huddersfield Quakers have declared a climate emergency through a new initiative that aims to provide arts and culture providers with a way of pledging to work towards a zero-carbon…
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has joined Quakers across Europe and the United States to call for a peaceful resolution to tensions between the US, Iran and other countries.
Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) has listed five key developments in Europe which have given it hope for the new year.
Quaker Ian Bray collected the Campaigner of the Year award from the Political Studies Association (PSA) on behalf of Extinction Rebellion (XR) last year.
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