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…
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.
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.
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…
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