The Holocaust Memorial Day HMD) Trust has identified ‘the power of words’ as a unifying theme for the 2018 remembrance of the millions killed in the Holocaust under Nazi…
Young Quakers at Penrith Meeting, Cumbria, are braving the winter weather to canoe the length of Ullswater in aid of refugees. A team of twelve, including six Young Quakers, will…
Friends are preparing for the annual Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW) spring conference. The event, which will be held on 23-25 March at the Hayes Conference Centre in…
A Syrian refugee and beekeeping expert has been interviewed on BBC Radio 4 about his beekeeping and the course he runs at Huddersfield Meeting House.
Winchmore Hill Quakers are raising money to install a ‘toilet twinning scheme’ in their newly refurbished eighteenth century Meeting house. The scheme, run by the charity…
The British army has been accused of misleading potential recruits with a new recruitment campaign that promises emotional support within the army. The Peace Pledge Union (PPU), a…
A new position has been created by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) to oversee its new strategy, based on the recommendations of the organisation’s 2016 report We can solve…
This year’s Quakers Uniting in Publications (QUIP) annual conference will consider ‘Writing at the Edge’ and brings together Friends from Europe and America over the weekend…
The life of Quaker Sam Peel, a one time warden at Wells-next-the-Sea Meeting house in North Norfolk, will be celebrated on stage in early March.
A tapestry exhibition on a religious subject that may appeal to Friends who are familiar with the Quaker Tapestry will be on display at selected venues in England.
A leading mental health charity has launched a resource to help churches build a culture of mental health awareness.
An international gathering of Nobel Peace Prize winners and peace activists took place in the first week of January at Friends House in London to consider a challenge: how to get…
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