An IT pioneer and philanthropist has led a call to find British foster families who took in Jewish refugee children on the Quaker co-founded kindertransport.
An open day for George Fox 400 held by Letchworth Friends shone a spotlight on the garden city’s Quaker roots.
Norwich Quakers organised a peace camp last month to coincide with Refugee Week.
Quakers have urged all political parties to draw up a ‘humane, co-ordinated response to those seeking refuge’.
Britain Yearly Meeting’s peace and disarmament team has highlighted a new report showing a thirteen per cent surge in global spending on nuclear weapons.
Quakers are taking a collaborative approach this general election with Meeting houses hosting local hustings for other organisations. So far this includes Bournemouth, Boscombe,…
Quakers started on a two-and-a-half-month journey this week to the Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC)’s World Plenary Meeting in South Africa.
The Bournville Village Trust (BVT) is offering Woodbrooke accommodation as affordable housing, which could include it being used by key workers. The move is part of wider plans to…
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