Eight hundred children will be descending on Friends House in London on 9 November to take part in activities to mark the centenary of the Armistice. The day, which is part of the…
Quaker Social Action (QSA) has announced that its ‘Step By Step’ walk around London’s ‘Capital Ring’ has raised more than £4,000 so far for people struggling with poverty.
Bristol West MP Thangam Debbonaire has spoken out at a Quaker Socialist Society event about her Quaker heritage and its effect on her politics. At Bristol Central Meeting House on…
A Quaker Social Action (QSA) housing project for young carers has been shortlisted for a national award organised by the Guardian newspaper. The Tower Hamlets-based ‘‘Move On…
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has joined a call for a change in the law to allow newly arrived asylum seekers the right to work in the UK after six months. In a letter published in…
More churches are interested in offering white poppies as well as red poppies in the run-up to Remembrance Sunday on 11 November.
Lincolnshire Friends are celebrating the opening of Newark Meeting House by leading Quaker writer Geoffrey Durham, which took place on 13 October. After the opening he spoke about…
Bath Quaker professor Lois Bibbings gave her inaugural lecture on the history of nonviolence on 31 October. The professor of law, gender and history at the University of Bristol…
A Quaker Woodbrooke tutor has decided to resign from her post as a Brownie leader, after Girlguiding refused to reconsider its controversial partnership with the British Army.
The Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) has updated its damning report on child immigration and detention to include some of Europe’s most up-to-date statistics.
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