Chichester Meeting has affirmed a statement on diversity after a group of LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning) Friends spoke at Sussex West Area…
Young Friends General Meeting (YFGM) was held at Redlands Meeting house in Bristol from 20 to 22 October with over eighty Friends in attendance. It was the best-attended YFGM in…
Quakers in Kenya are calling on Friends in Britain and around the world to uphold them as the political crisis in their country deepens.
Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Area Meeting (AM) has recently joined the list of those organisations accredited as a Living Wage employer. Living Wage rates are independently…
The trial of Quaker campaigner Sam Walton, who along with Methodist minister Dan Woodhouse is charged with criminal damage for their attempt to disarm warplanes being sold to Saudi…
Lucy Roberts, the regional director of the Asia Programme of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), recently talked to about sixty people at an event organised by members…
A play set partly in the world of the seventeenth century Digger movement is presently touring Quaker Meeting houses in Britain.
Paul Parker, the recording clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting, spoke about the broader role of communications from Friends House. All of the speaking out, he explained, is done on…
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