24th May 2019

Art’s role in fighting climate change and driving action

by Rebecca Hardy

The ground-breaking anti-war artist Peter Kennard made a passionate case for the role of art in communicating and driving climate action at the launch of the Grantham Art Prize…

24th May 2019

QCEA question EU military spending

by Rebecca Hardy

Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) joined thirteen other civil society organisations last week to express their ‘deep concern’ about proposed EU military spending in…

17th May 2019

Friends protest at Westminster Abbey

by Rebecca Hardy

Quakers took part in the protests at Westminster Abbey this month against its thanksgiving service for fifty years of constant patrols by nuclear submarines.

17th May 2019

Bath Quakers convene climate hustings

by Rebecca Hardy

Over 100 people gathered at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution for a local-election hustings last month convened by Bath Quakers on the theme of climate and…

17th May 2019

Norwich Quakers discuss spirituality and economics

by Rebecca Hardy

Norwich Quakers are hosting a public debate this week asking the question: ‘What’s spiritual about economics?’

17th May 2019

Friends host play to mark Quaker conchie’s 100th birthday

by Rebecca Hardy

Lincolnshire Friends are celebrating the centenary birthday of one of the oldest surviving Quaker conscientious objectors (COs) by hosting a play about the pacifist training farm…

17th May 2019

Forty-three per cent of Quakers ‘don’t believe in God’, says magazine

by Rebecca Hardy

Around forty-three per cent of British Quakers do not profess a belief in God, according to an article last month in The Economist magazine.

10th May 2019

QCA hails move from livestock farming

by Rebecca Hardy

The Quaker Concern for Animals (QCA) group has praised the ‘small but growing number’ of farmers who are turning their back on livestock farming to embrace plant horticulture. 

10th May 2019

Bideford Meeting fire

by Rebecca Hardy

Friends from Bideford Meeting in Devon have asked Quakers to hold them in the light after a fire broke out at its Meeting house.

10th May 2019

Huddersfield Friends start climate vigil

by Rebecca Hardy

Huddersfield Friends have started a monthly ‘climate disruption’ vigil after what they describe as a ‘surge of interest’ from non-Quakers following the Extinction Rebellion…