A Quaker conscientious objector (CO) from the second world war featured in a BBC Radio 4 news programme this month. Donald Saunders, of Colwyn Bay Meeting, spoke on Broadcasting…
Norwich Quakers hosted a fair this month in a bid to raise awareness of the climate crisis. Members from several climate change and peace organisations came together on 8 June for…
Exeter Quakers celebrated the three-month anniversary of their interfaith vigil which was set up in response to the shootings at two New Zealand mosques in March.
A Bath Friend has been elected as a local Liberal Democrat councillor after returning to politics three years ago to help stop the rise of the Conservative Party in Bath.
The Quaker-associated Penn Club is gearing up for its centenary celebrations next year with commissioned artwork and plans to reach out to Friends for stories of their visits to…
Friends took part in the Peace Pledge Union (PPU) annual conference this month to explore what solidarity means in practice and how to adapt national or international campaigns to…
A Hereford Friend is asking for Quakers to take part in a research project exploring ‘what it means to be or become Quaker’.
Quaker Social Action (QSA) has backed a campaign to stop threatening debt collection letters that was debated in the UK parliament Commons Treasury committee last month.
Quaker bodies are among 108 organisations that have signed a declaration called: ‘Save the European Peace Project.’
The Quaker-founded Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has outlined how the government can ‘call time on the injustice of in-work poverty’ following recent proposals to tackle the…
Quakers gathered at Mount Street Meeting House in Manchester last week to discuss the benefits of Land Value Tax (LVT). Speakers on 1 June came from the Coalition for Economic…
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