10th November 2017

QUNO’s ‘Negotiator’s Toolkit’

by Harry Albright

The Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) has created ‘A Negotiator’s Toolkit’ to support climate negotiators in their work to engage government officials with reasons for…

10th November 2017

Remembrance peace vigil

by Harry Albright

Friends will be among those joining a silent vigil on 11 November (11am to 11:45am) in London’s Trafalgar Square outside the National Gallery.

10th November 2017

Banner kits

by Harry Albright

Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) member Allison Challen has put together a new set of one-person peace banner kits that include the fabric and instructions.

Peace activist Friend wins ‘not guilty’ verdict
3rd November 2017

Peace activist Friend wins ‘not guilty’ verdict

by Harry Albright
3rd November 2017

Chichester Meeting affirms statement on diversity

by Harry Albright

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…

3rd November 2017

Young Friends General Meeting ’best-attended in years’

by Harry Albright

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…

Call to increase funeral funding
27th October 2017

Call to increase funeral funding

by Harry Albright
White poppies – a left-wing agenda?
27th October 2017

White poppies – a left-wing agenda?

by The Friend Newsdesk
27th October 2017

Kenyan Quakers call for calm

by Harry Albright

Quakers in Kenya are calling on Friends in Britain and around the world to uphold them as the political crisis in their country deepens.

27th October 2017

Living Wage accreditation

by Harry Albright

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…

27th October 2017

Quaker peace campaigner on trial in Burnley

by Harry Albright

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…

27th October 2017

Quaker work in North Korea

by Harry Albright

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…