The Quaker artist Jill Gibbon was among the artists included in an exhibition made up of work withdrawn from the Design Museum’s ‘Hope to Nope’ exhibition.
Pakefield Friends in Suffolk performed a play-reading of a historic public meeting discussing the subject of ‘Votes for Women’.
‘We have a huge agenda today,’ Anne Ullathorne, clerk of Meeting for Sufferings (MfS), observed on Saturday 6 October in Friends House, London. The Young People’s…
Friends enthusiastically welcomed a proposal to create four places reserved for Young Adult Friends (YAFs), aged under thirty-five, at Meeting for Sufferings for the remainder of…
The Young People’s Participation Day was held in parallel with Meeting for Sufferings on Saturday 6 October. Young Friends, aged between fourteen and eighteen, joined Sufferings…
‘All divisions among people are made by people.’ This comment from an Area Meeting was highlighted by Edwina Peart, inclusion and diversity coordinator for Britain Yearly…
Quakers are celebrating Quaker Week this year with a range of events and faith-inspired action. The week, themed ‘Room for More’, is being marked across the UK from 29…
More than sixty visitors came to an exhibition exploring the Kindertransport at Dorking Meeting House.
A Friend from Rochester Meeting acted out the role of George Fox in a re-enactment of episodes from Fox’s life at the Glenthorne Quaker Centre and Guest House in Grasmere.
The Quaker Young Adult (YA) writer Sara Barnard gave a talk at the Quaker Centre this week as part of Quaker Week celebrations.
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