Friends from all over the UK came together for a Quaker Activist Gathering at Friends House, London, for a day of inspiration and contemplation.
Friends took part in a protest outside the Ministry of Defence last month where campaigners physically counted the £5.2 billion that the UK is forecast to spend on nuclear weapons…
Milford Haven Quakers have opened a meditation and wellbeing centre at their Meeting house after a long period of discernment. David Doorbar, clerk of the Meeting, said the…
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has pledged that it will be asking politicians searching questions in the run-up to the general election, as well as cautioning about ‘the nature of…
A Friend from Colchester Meeting spoke at an international congress in Mexico as part of her testimony as a Quaker in addressing ‘the needs of the most traumatised and vulnerable…
Quakers are celebrating the moratorium on fracking in the UK that the government announced last week, but pressed for an outright ban.
Quakers expressed delight at the news that veteran peace campaigner Bruce Kent has been awarded the 2019 International Peace Bureau (IPB) Sean MacBride Peace Prize.
Nearly 100 anti-fracking groups and campaigners have signed a letter to Boris Johnson calling for fracking to be banned. Friends who have long campaigned against the practice of…
A Quaker author joined forty writers including Simon Schama, Susie Orbach and Ali Smith at a two-hour literary event in support of Extinction Rebellion (XR). Lucy-Anne Holmes, from…
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