Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has joined six other Christian groups in signing an open letter to the new prime minister describing a ‘no-deal Brexit’ as ‘a huge gamble’ that…
Quakers from Malvern, Hereford and Worcester demonstrated against a two-day Defence and Security Expo held at Malvern’s Three Counties Showgrounds last month. Friends and…
Members of the Quaker Values in Education group and the Quaker Gender and Sexual Diversity Community have signed a letter calling on the government to step up its support to…
The Peace Pledge Union (PPU) has urged the UK’s incoming prime minister to reject calls by the Defence Select Committee to introduce a ‘presumption against prosecution’ for…
Eleven volunteers for Quaker Voluntary Action (QVA) headed for Calais last month to start work at the Help Refugees warehouse. Friends from Meetings in Great Britain and the…
Quakers lent their support to Tax Justice Sunday this month, joining other churches in calling on businesses to ‘Say what you pay with pride’ amid increasing public concern…
Quakers from Bournemouth Coastal Area Meeting and Hampshire and Islands Area Meeting joined around sixty people on an annual Peace Walk through Southampton this month.
Exeter Friends invited the local mosque to an afternoon at the Meeting house this month as part of its commitment to supporting Muslims in the wake of the Christchurch shootings.
The Quaker author and academic Hilary Hinds, of Lancaster University, gave the annual George Richardson Lecture at Woodbrooke last month in which she spoke about her new work…
A Quaker local government councillor for the Green Party has received an award for proposing the first successful climate emergency motion in Europe.
A shared Quaker Social Action (QSA) project has been profiled as an example of ‘best practice’ in a report by The Children’s Society which looked at gaps in provision for…
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