Quakers up and down the country have been engaged in events to highlight Refugee Week. Friends have hosted and organised a range of arts, cultural and social events to mark the…
Quakers have spoken out about the British army’s recent recruitment drive that targeted ‘stressed and vulnerable’ sixteen-year-olds on and around GCSE results day.
Bath Quaker Meeting hosted an event called ‘Do It Ourselves! How Can We Make Bath a Co-operative City?’ It was supported by the Bath & West Cooperative Party and Bath…
The Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) co-organised an event with Young Professionals in Foreign Policy (YPFP) on ‘The Role of Media as a Peacebuilding Tool in Syria’.
The Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) World Office has announced that Michael Wajda is joining the organisation to support their fund development programme.
Quakers’ ongoing concern about the rise of militarism in Scottish schools received good news this month when a report by the Scottish parliament called for a ‘Child Rights…
Quakers from France, Finland, Holland, Sweden, Belgium, Germany, Ireland and the UK came together this month to form a strong protest against the Eurosatory arms fair in Paris.
Quakers have backed a report claiming that the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act is limiting the charity sector’s ability to…
Britain Yearly Meeting has said it is ‘appalled’ that the UK government abstained from a recent UN Human Rights Council vote to establish an independent Commission of Inquiry…
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