Pendle Hill Area Meeting is assisting in a partnership aimed at reconnecting local people with Pendle Hill, where George Fox had a vision of ‘a great people to be gathered’ in…
Quakers from around the country were among those who gathered at the Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment in Berkshire on Easter Sunday to mark sixty years since the first…
A Quaker playwright from Wanstead Meeting, Michael Mears, is to show his play This Evil Thing in Buffalo this week as part of a five-week tour of the United States. The one-man…
Quakers campaigning to stay in the European Union took part in the South West March and Rally for Europe in Exeter last month organised by Devon for Europe.
A documentary about the history of a well-established Quaker family will be premiered next week.
Many Quakers protested against the DPRTE (Defence Procurement, Research Technoology and Exportability) exhibition in Cardiff last week as part of the Stop the Arms Fair protest.
A Quaker poet is to lead a poetry workshop at the historic Pales Meeting House near Llandegley in Wales. Stevie Krayer will lead the workshop on the theme of ‘Special Places’…
Horsham Repair Café in West Sussex, with which local Friends are involved, was shortlisted for one of the ‘Green Heart Hero Awards’, presented at a ceremony at parliament on…
Rwandan Friends may be forced to close all their buildings, including the Friends Peace House in Kigali, because of a government decree over the issue of lightning rods.
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