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…
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…
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.
Quakers have welcomed the government’s announcement that it will consider ditching ‘no-fault evictions’ in a ground-breaking overhaul of ‘renters rights’.
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…
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has reaffirmed its 2014 call to the UK government to ‘honour its commitment to the two-state solution and recognise the state of Palestine without…
Quakers and Action for Women are holding an exhibition of photographic portraits of, and taken by, migrant women inside the European institutions. The SEEN exhibition is being…
Friends were present at a one-day conference in Wales designed to bring together organisations working with diverse communities in Wales to help create a united stance.
Quaker Social Action (QSA) was involved in a video shown on The Guardian website last week highlighting the misery of funeral poverty. The film covers the harrowing journey of…
Linda Batten, treasurer of Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM), presented the accounts from the financial report for the year ending 31 December 2018 at Meeting for Sufferings on 6 April.
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