Quaker Homeless Action (QHA) has opened a new winter shelter in London in partnership with the Simon Community.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has pledged to cover the costs of immigration advice for its EU employees seeking to apply for settled status following Brexit.
Quaker Social Action (QSA) took part in a BBC Radio Four programme last week to discuss funeral poverty. Claire Brandon, manager of QSA’s ‘Down to Earth’ campaign, spoke to…
The Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) has encouraged ‘Quakers around the world to hold our Friends in Nairobi in prayer’.
Quaker campaigners in Lancashire have welcomed the decision by Andy Burnham, mayor of Greater Manchester, to oppose fracking in the region’s ten local councils. The Labour mayor…
The Stansted Fifteen protestors charged with stopping a deportation charter flight under a terror offence have launched an appeal against the verdict.
Quakers have voiced fierce criticism of the latest army recruitment campaign targeting young people. The campaign features world war one-style posters with images of modern young…
Central Bristol Friends are expanding their Meeting house in order to accommodate more homeless people at its overnight shelter.
A member of Herstmonceux Meeting in East Sussex has written a book called Corporate Citizenship: The role of companies as citizens of the modern world.
One hundred and ninety volunteers helped out at the Quaker Open Christmas last month organised by Quaker Homeless Action (QHA).
Quaker Molly Scott Cato, the Green Party MEP for South West England, has described the government’s decision to ditch payments for householders installing solar panels as a…
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