Christine Habgood-Coote and Terry Faull, the clerks of the central nominations committee (CNC), reported on how they are working under their new terms of reference, which were…
The Quaker Housing Trust (QHT) is celebrating two projects in Tamworth, Staffordshire, and Tunbridge Wells in Kent. In 2014 QHT made a capital costs grant of £12,000, with a…
Quakers from Bala, Porthmadog and Pwllheli combined to hold a general election forum in Porthmadog Community Centre on 16 May.
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) has welcomed a UN draft treaty to ban nuclear weapons.
Two of the fifty Quaker prison chaplains who continue the legacy of Elizabeth Fry today were present at a reception last week to mark 200 years since she began her vital work in…
Reading Quaker meeting house will host a ‘reverse hustings’ on 31 May from 7.30pm to 9.30pm. All but two of the parties standing candidates at the general election in the…
Rowan williams, the chair of Christian Aid, has urged Britain not to turn inwards but to look outwards as the country forges a new relationship with the world.
Friends of the Earth (FOE) has launched its Great British Bee Count (19 May-30 June). The aim is to enable people to find out more about the bees that visit their neighbourhoods…
Twenty-seven countries across the world are in debt crisis, up from twenty-two when the figures were last calculated in 2015, according to new figures released for World Debt Day…
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