5th July 2019

Quaker peace campaigner wins compensation

by Rebecca Hardy

A Quaker peace campaigner who claimed she was deliberately run over by a car has been awarded £15,000 in compensation after a long-standing fight for justice.

5th July 2019

Mass lobby urges action on climate

by Rebecca Hardy

More than 100 Quakers from England, Scotland and Wales came to Westminster last week to take part in ‘The Time is Now’, a mass lobby of parliament urging MPs to take action on…

5th July 2019

Global Peace Index: Quaker House launch

by Rebecca Hardy

The average level of ‘global peacefulness’ improved for the first time in five years, according to the 2019 Global Peace Index launched at Quaker House in Brussels last month.…

5th July 2019

Letter to Foreign Office about Iran

by Rebecca Hardy

The Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) has called for the UK to ‘act to reduce tensions and commit to nuclear disarmanent’ in the light of escalating conflict with Iran,…

28th June 2019

Quakers mark Refugee Week

by Rebecca Hardy

The annual Refugee Week got off to a good start when the government announced that the UK will resettle 5,000 of the world’s most vulnerable refugees in the first year of a new…

BYM and Woodbrooke work together for changes
28th June 2019

BYM and Woodbrooke work together for changes

by Rebecca Hardy
28th June 2019

Quakers go to Glastonbury

by Rebecca Hardy

Friends will be donning their wellies this weekend when, for what is thought to be the first year ever, there will be a Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) presence at Glastonbury…

28th June 2019

Standing ovation for Quaker prison theatre

by Rebecca Hardy

A Quaker theatre company performed in front of an audience of sixty inmates at a prison in the south west of England this month.

28th June 2019

Bath Friends mark Windrush Day

by Rebecca Hardy

Bath Friends were among those who supported the second Windrush Day event in Bath this month.

21st June 2019

Scottish Friends support Elgin mosque

by Rebecca Hardy

Friends in Forres, north Scotland, have pledged their support to a local mosque that was the victim of a hate attack. The Elgin Islamic Centre in Elgin was spray-painted with…

21st June 2019

BYM blasts UK arms trade in inquiry

by Rebecca Hardy

Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has made a written submission to a parliamentary inquiry into UK policies towards autocratic states. The submission, co-written by Daniel Jakopovich,…