3rd May 2019

Quaker MP calls for end to criminalising homeless

by Rebecca Hardy

Quaker Homeless Action (QHA) has welcomed a Quaker MP’s call for an end to what she describes as ‘the criminalisation of homeless people’.

3rd May 2019

Quaker publishes book on interspecies bond

by Rebecca Hardy

A Friend from Clun Valley Meeting and member of Quaker Concern for Animals (QCA) has written an illustrated book that touches on the deep human-animal bond that can be accessed…

3rd May 2019

Lecture on Quaker testimonies in ‘turbulent times’

by Rebecca Hardy

A former Friends House employee suggested two more Quaker testimonies in a far-ranging lecture she gave to Southern Africa Yearly Meeting. Helen Vale, of the Namibia Quaker…

3rd May 2019

Peacebuilding playlist on YouTube

by Rebecca Hardy

A Britain Yearly Meeting employee has put together a playlist of over seventy YouTube videos that focus on the themes of peacebuilding and nonviolence.

3rd May 2019

QSA celebrates money project for struggling families

by Rebecca Hardy

Quaker Social Action (QSA) presented the findings from its financial wellbeing project ‘Get Set’ at the end of March, which was set up for Islington families. The event on 28…

3rd May 2019

Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust to ‘significantly increase grant spending’

by Rebecca Hardy

The Quaker Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust has announced plans to significantly increase its grant spending by over £3 million per year in a drive to step up its work and widen…

Friends flock for Extinction Rebellion protest
26th April 2019

Friends flock for Extinction Rebellion protest

by Rebecca Hardy
26th April 2019

Greta Thunberg comes to Friends House

by Rebecca Hardy

There were long queues to Friends House last week when Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) hosted the Swedish climate activist and Nobel Prize nominee Greta Thunberg as part of its…

26th April 2019

Quakers in Criminal Justice call for end of ‘war on drugs’

by Rebecca Hardy

The Quakers in Criminal Justice (QICJ) group has called for British Quakers to help put an end to the UK’s damaging ‘war on drugs’ policy. The minute was discerned at a…

26th April 2019

‘Zombie’ legal fight ends after eight years

by Rebecca Hardy

Two Quaker parents from Muswell Hill Meeting saw their adult daughter lose an eight-year legal fight against her pre-emptive arrest during 2011’s royal wedding.

26th April 2019

Plans to scrap ‘no fault evictions’

by Rebecca Hardy

Quakers have welcomed the government’s announcement that it will consider ditching ‘no-fault evictions’ in a ground-breaking overhaul of ‘renters rights’.

26th April 2019

Talk on early Quaker feminist

by Rebecca Hardy

A leading Quaker feminist and social activist born more than 250 years ago was the subject of a talk at the Bruce Castle Museum in north London. Local history researcher Margaret…