The Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) is gathering stories of Quaker sustainability-in-action projects from around the world. The organisation has already brought…
Quaker Social Action (QSA) has welcomed the news that the UK’s biggest privately-owned funeral operator, Dignity, recently announced it is reducing the cost of its Simple Funeral…
This year is set to be an increasingly difficult one for low-income households, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has predicted, with average price inflation for the UK standing…
Friends visiting the Quaker Meeting House in Bull Street, Birmingham, can enjoy seeing the creative results of a special anniversary day held last year: a ‘Peace Tree’.
Huddersfield Quakers have written to four Kirklees MPs asking them to sign the parliamentary nuclear ban pledge. So far one, Thelma Walker, MP for Colne Valley, Huddersfield, has…
A London-based Friend has criticised the British army recruitment adverts to ‘find where you belong’ in an article in The Big Issue.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has called for the ‘inequality gap’ to end, following a report by Oxfam which shows that the gap between the richest and the poorest has widened.
Friends House has announced it will make a public commitment to further promote sustainable, compassionate eating by becoming a ‘CreatureKind’ institution.
A Quaker and Buddhist scholar is a keynote speaker at the 2018 Earlham School of Religion (ESR) Spirituality Gathering in the USA this spring.
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