Quakers have urged all political parties to draw up a ‘humane, co-ordinated response to those seeking refuge’.
Britain Yearly Meeting’s peace and disarmament team has highlighted a new report showing a thirteen per cent surge in global spending on nuclear weapons.
Quakers are taking a collaborative approach this general election with Meeting houses hosting local hustings for other organisations. So far this includes Bournemouth, Boscombe,…
Quakers started on a two-and-a-half-month journey this week to the Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC)’s World Plenary Meeting in South Africa.
The Bournville Village Trust (BVT) is offering Woodbrooke accommodation as affordable housing, which could include it being used by key workers. The move is part of wider plans to…
As leaders of the world’s richest countries met at a G7 meeting in Italy last week, Quakers urged them to deliver new, adequate climate finance to developing countries.
Two parliamentary candidates with Quaker links are standing against each other in a newly-created seat in Bristol.
Quakers in Devon took part in a benefit concert this month in aid of children displaced by conflict. Hilary Prentice, from Totnes Meeting, and Steve Day and Stephen Sterling, from…
Quakers and Buddhists are coming together to organise a second multi-faith silent walk for peace.
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