Woodbrooke has launched its first Twitter-based course in response to the coronavirus lockdown, as its online presence grows. The ‘Talking to God’ course, launched on 17…
Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) has furloughed two members of its five-strong staff due to the coronavirus outbreak. Gretchen Castle, FWCC general secretary, told…
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has joined education charities, unions and environmental NGOs in signing up to ‘Teach the Future’, a youth-led campaign to put the climate crisis…
The Peace Pledge Union (PPU) has said that the Metropolitan Police and the Crown Prosecution Service face ‘urgent questions’ after the last-minute withdrawal of charges against…
Quakers were among nearly 500 church leaders and elders who have called for UK churches to ensure that ‘the deepening crisis of UK poverty is at the centre of national…
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…
Thirty people gathered at Friends House, London, this month to consider the topic ‘Language, Truth and Religion’.
Loughborough Quakers have started an interfaith initiative for their local Council of Faiths designed to bring members closer together.
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…
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…
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