31st August 2018

Women highlighted in Maldon exhibition

by The Friend Newsdesk

Maldon Quakers in Essex are putting on an exhibition about the history of the Religious Society of Friends with particular emphasis on Quaker women for the town’s heritage…

31st August 2018

‘Putting the protest back in Protestant’ at Greenbelt Festival

by The Friend Newsdesk

Conversations about the call of protest as a form of witness and how God-words can get in the way when sharing experiences of the divine were key themes in the Quaker presence at…

Day in the sun at Harvington Hall for refugee families
31st August 2018

Day in the sun at Harvington Hall for refugee families

by The Friend Newsdesk
Friends rally behind hunger striker
24th August 2018

Friends rally behind hunger striker

by Rebecca Hardy
24th August 2018

Letter to end ‘hostile environment’

by Rebecca Hardy

Paul Parker, recording clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting, has joined twenty faith representatives in signing a letter calling on the UK government to end the ‘hostile…

24th August 2018

Friends protest at EDL march

by Rebecca Hardy

Bewdley and Worcester Quakers held a peaceful protest on 21 July against a march by the English Defence League (EDL).

24th August 2018

Lichfield Quakers speak out

by Rebecca Hardy

Lichfield Friends have released a statement in support of their ‘Muslim friends’.

24th August 2018

Working party set up for Indian march

by Rebecca Hardy

A working party of Quakers and others has been set up to look at ways in which Friends in the UK can be involved in an international march campaigning for Sustainable Development…

24th August 2018

Elizabeth Fry is one of ‘100 women who changed the world’

by Rebecca Hardy

Elizabeth Fry, the leading Quaker prison reformer, has made it onto a list of the ‘100 Women Who Changed the World’.

Ada Salter Garden opened
24th August 2018

Ada Salter Garden opened

by Rebecca Hardy
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day vigils
17th August 2018

Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day vigils

by Rebecca Hardy