This weekend Young Friends from across Europe will be gathering in County Armagh in Northern Ireland.
Quakers up and down the country supported people in the Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre last week by joining a ‘freedom fast’. More than five hundred protestors,…
Friends in Clitheroe celebrated the first birthday of their new Meeting house last week, with cake after its Meeting for Worship. The Meeting house in Lancashire opened its doors…
Friends from the North London New Economy Reading Group met with MPs last month to talk about setting up an All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on banking reform.
A Quaker, Anglican clergyman and leading advocate on sexual abuse in the church has been nominated for the 2018 Secularist of the Year Award.
Friends General Conference (FGC) has pledged to share stories of Quaker women in history throughout March to mark Women’s History Month.
The ‘Working in a Quaker School’ conference was held at Sibford School near Banbury in Oxfordshire on 14 March. It focused on ‘Quaker beliefs, methods and values and business…
Southern Africa Yearly Meeting (SAYM) has set up a new YouTube channel showing videos of Southern African Friends talking about their Quaker faith. The channel currently consists…
The Peace Museum in Bradford is holding an exhibition this month exploring the aftermath of the first world war from the perspective of German civilians.
Newcastle City Council has mounted a memorial plaque to commemorate visits by a leading American abolitionist to the home of the influential Quaker Richardson family. Anti-slave…
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