12th October 2018

Sheila Hancock speaks out against indefinite detention

by Rebecca Hardy

Quaker actor Sheila Hancock delivered an impassioned indictment of the use of indefinite immigration detention in the UK when she joined Jeremy Irons, Zoe Wanamaker, Christopher…

12th October 2018

Thank you from Rwanda Yearly Meeting

by Rebecca Hardy

Rwanda Yearly Meeting has thanked Friends throughout the world for supporting its appeal for funding to help install thirty-five lightning rods required by a government decree.

12th October 2018

Jordans Quakers highlight prison issues and restorative justice

by Rebecca Hardy

JordanS Quaker Centre held a workshop on Prisons and Justice last month, with contributions from past prisoners and a prison governor.

12th October 2018

Quaker art in exhibition with Design Museum protesters

by Rebecca Hardy

The Quaker artist Jill Gibbon was among the artists included in an exhibition made up of work withdrawn from the Design Museum’s ‘Hope to Nope’ exhibition.

12th October 2018

‘Votes for women’ costume performance

by Rebecca Hardy

Pakefield Friends in Suffolk performed a play-reading of a historic public meeting discussing the subject of ‘Votes for Women’.

12th October 2018

Meeting for Sufferings: ‘A simple church supported by a simple charity’

by George Osgerby

‘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…

12th October 2018

Meeting for Sufferings: Sufferings to include four places for Young Adult Friends

by Elinor Smallman

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…

12th October 2018

Meeting for Sufferings: Young Friends ask ‘connecting questions’

by George Osgerby

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…

12th October 2018

Meeting for Sufferings: Exploring diversity and inclusion in Meetings

by Elinor Smallman

‘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…

5th October 2018

Friends come together for Quaker Week

by Rebecca Hardy

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…

‘Art the Arms Fair’ are ’New Radicals’
5th October 2018

‘Art the Arms Fair’ are ’New Radicals’

by Rebecca Hardy
5th October 2018

Dorking Friends hold Bertha Bracey exhibition

by Rebecca Hardy

More than sixty visitors came to an exhibition exploring the Kindertransport at Dorking Meeting House.