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.
Several Meeting houses took part in the recent Open House London event. Friends from Blackheath Meeting showed off their 1970s Brutalist Meeting house on 22-23 September, while…
British Yearly Meeting (BYM) has joined the call for the UK to recognise the state of Palestine. Paul Parker, BYM recording clerk, signed the letter published in The Times on 14…
Quakers have voiced concern about the new partnership between Girlguiding and the British army. Girlguiding is the operating name of the Guide Association.
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