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…

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).