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Young adult steering group meets
Quaker Life has launched a new undertaking with the first meeting last week of the steering group of the Engaging Young Adult Quakers Project. The group has been appointed by Quaker Life Central Committee and the members are all young adult Quakers who will help develop and guide the work...
Northern Friends Peace Board meeting hears of recent work
Three Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) groups have been working to create peace-related workshops, resources on ‘Sustainable Security’, and on ways to promote alternative employment in areas like Barrow-in-Furness, where Trident-replacement submarines are to be built.
London Link Group marks ‘Fly Kites Not Drones’ day
London Link Group took thirty-eight people to Brighton on the weekend of 11-12 March.
Sibford School to use Fairtrade bananas
Only Fairtrade bananas will be served on the lunchtime fruit counter at Sibford School in future.
Quakers in slaughterhouse vigil
Quaker Concern for Animals (QCA) joined Oxfordshire Animal Save on 3 March for an act of witness at a slaughterhouse near Witney in Oxfordshire.
Solitary confinement of children
An urgent challenge to a teenage boy’s ‘prolonged solitary confinement’ in a London prison will be heard in the High Court.
Faith should be a basic human right
The right to believe in God the way you want, and to practice a faith the way you believe, is a basic human right World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Olav Fykse Tveit told a side event of the 34th session of the UN Human Rights Council on 7 March.
Call for convictions to be quashed
One hundred years after the conviction of a leading woman figure in the anti-war movement campaigners are calling for a review of her case by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC).
Headley Brothers sold
Headley Brothers Limited of Ashford in Kent, printers of the Friend magazine for sixty-five years, went into administration on the morning of 2 March and a deal for the 130-year-old business was completed in the afternoon.
Friends at Hay Festival
A panel of Quaker speakers will take part as a main stage event at this year’s Hay Book Festival. The names of those participating in the event on Sunday 28 May will be released soon.