27th October 2017

Digging the Dirt on tour

by Harry Albright

A play set partly in the world of the seventeenth century Digger movement is presently touring Quaker Meeting houses in Britain.

QSA leader wins top award
20th October 2017

QSA leader wins top award

by Harry Albright
20th October 2017

Meeting for Sufferings: Speaking out for Friends

by Ian Kirk-Smith

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…

20th October 2017

Meeting for Sufferings: Sufferings considers Sanctuary Everywhere

by Ian Kirk-Smith

Meeting for Sufferings, held at Manchester Meeting House on Mount Street on Saturday 7 October, was asked, as part of the ongoing work on forced migration, to approve a…

20th October 2017

Meeting for Sufferings: Reflecting on Yearly Meeting Gathering

by Elinor Smallman

At Meeting for Sufferings representatives were asked to reflect on their experience of the Yearly Meeting Gathering (YMG) held at the University of Warwick in August, whether they…

20th October 2017

Meeting for Sufferings: Exploring diversity

by Elinor Smallman

The issue of diversity within the Religious Society of Friends was raised at Meeting for Sufferings. A paragraph of Yearly Meeting’s Minute 38 was sent to Meeting for Sufferings…

20th October 2017

Meeting for Sufferings: Committee on Clerks

by Elinor Smallman

A minute sent by Yearly Meeting was considered by Meeting for Sufferings. Minute 23 asked Sufferings to undertake a review of the Committee on Clerks, specifically of their…

20th October 2017

Meeting for Sufferings: QPSW’s work

by Ian Kirk-Smith

Helen Drewery talked about the annual report of Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW).

20th October 2017

Peace protestors ‘admonished’

by The Friend Newsdesk

Three peace protestors, including Hull Quaker Sam Donaldson, have been ‘admonished’ by a Scottish court after taking part in a nonviolent blockade of the UK’s nuclear weapons…

20th October 2017

Grenfell Tower witness

by The Friend Newsdesk

Friends joined for a Quaker Meeting for Worship on Saturday 14 October and stood in solidarity with all those who had suffered from the Grenfell Tower fire.

13th October 2017

Meeting for Sufferings: Friends gather in Manchester

by Ian Kirk-Smith

A very full agenda, which covered subjects as diverse as ‘speaking out’ in Britain to peace work in East Africa, was dealt with at Meeting for Sufferings held at Friends…

13th October 2017

Meeting for Sufferings: Quakers in Britain

by Elinor Smallman

A paper addressing concerns raised by Cambridgeshire Area Meeting about use of the phrase ‘Quakers in Britain’ was prepared by the Recording Clerk’s Office for Meeting for…