Ellis Brooks, from Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW), has spoken on the radio this month about the new documentary War School, which previewed at Friends House in London.
Quakers enjoyed a lively Inter Faith Week from 11 to 18 November with a wide range of events and activities. From a death café, organised by Leicester Friends on 18 November, to a…
The Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) took part in the Paris Peace Forum this month.
Friends met for the Quaker Activist Gathering at Lancaster Meeting House on 3 November. The action-focused day was for ‘Quakers who identify as activists, framed in worship’.
The Quaker MEP Molly Scott Cato delivered the annual Peace Lecture for Huddersfield Meeting, ‘Democracies don’t go to war’, on 1 November.
The Quaker activist on trial for blocking the take-off of an immigration removal charter flight gave evidence in court recently that she was acting out of conscience to protect the…
Sales of white poppies in 2018 are the highest they have ever been since their launch in 1933 – despite a barrage of criticism in the media.
Seventy friends gathered at the ‘Mental Health and Young People’ day in Birmingham, organised by the Quaker Mental Health Forum. The day at the Priory Rooms on 3 November…
The Quaker Service Memorial Trust (QSMT) has released a DVD containing interviews with world war two members of the Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU) and Friends Relief Service (FRS).…
Quakers are upholding Friends’ decisions to take part in a campaign of civil disobedience as part of their witness against climate change. Several Friends took part in the…
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