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…
There was tension in Friends House last week when three Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) posts were ‘deleted’ with imminent redundancies.
Friends from Forres in Moray are celebrating the news that Moray Council in Scotland has declared a climate and ecological emergency after a Quaker-backed campaign.
The group of Quakers who hosted a tent at Glastonbury Festival featured on the BBC programme Songs of Praise last week.
A representative from London Quakers met Elizabeth II last month at a Buckingham Palace reception to celebrate the work of faith groups promoting community cohesion.
Friends took part in a global gathering of Mennonites in the Netherlands last month. The event, which takes place every three years, focused on migration, peace, gender-justice and…
Manchester Friends hosted a poetry event last week to mark the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo massacre, where tens of thousands of people demonstrating for parliamentary reform…
London Quakers marked Windrush Day by joining with the Quaker Asylum and Refugee Network (QARN) and members of Britain Yearly Meeting’s (BYM’s) Sanctuary Meetings programme to…
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