Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has written an open letter to the secretary of state for education expressing alarm at plans to allow more disciplinary measures in schools including…
Quakers joined hundreds of people in a rally outside Cuadrilla’s shale gas site this month demanding a halt to fracking in Lancashire after a record-breaking earth tremor caused…
A member of the Quaker Asylum Refugee Network (QARN) has spoken out about Home Office plans to end family reunification for asylum-seeking children in the event of a no-deal…
Quakers are planning to take part in a ‘faith bridge’ in the next phase of Extinction Rebellion (XR) protests starting on 7 October. The Christian Climate Action group has…
Friends made their voices heard against the hugely controversial decision to prorogue parliament made by prime minister Boris Johnson.
The Quaker-founded Ethical Landlords Association (ELA) has dissolved due to ‘the difficulty of establishing a new body from scratch’.
Friends from Quaker Concern for Animals (QCA) were among the 12,000 vegan activists who took part in a record-breaking march last month demanding ‘an end to all animal…
Quaker and former Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) employee Jessica Metheringham has received enough pledges for her new board game Disarm the Base to be produced. With a minimum goal…
Cotteridge Meeting has become the first UK Quaker Meeting to be given a Gold Eco Church award. The prize from A Rocha recognises that Cotteridge Quakers have reduced the carbon…
Quaker Homeless Action (QHA) has backed a campaign calling for free public showers to be installed in London to ‘enhance the wellbeing of those who sleep rough’. The petition…
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