Hertford meeting house will be hosting a concert in early October entitled ‘Walk Cheerfully over the World: Quaker testimonies in music and song’.
A play about conscientious objectors in world war one written by a London Friend is on tour this autumn. The play is entitled This Evil Thing and was written by Michael Mears of…
A-Level students at The Mount School in York achieved a 100 per cent pass rate, with seventy-nine achieving A*-B grades.
Llangollen Meeting in Wales and Lichfield Meeting in England have become the first two Sanctuary Meetings in Britain.
The US Embassy has declined to accept a letter from a delegation of journalists, writers and peace activists which calls on the United States government to stop its nuclear…
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) has issued a report reflecting on the organisation’s work in Korea over the last sixty-five years. Engaging North Korea – Volume…
French authorities must provide basic amenities to refugees in Calais in the future.
Friends of the Earth (FoE) has responded positively to the announcement by leading British supermarket Tesco that it will no longer provide single-use plastic bags – but wants…
Bear witness with white poppies Friends wishing to show their opposition to the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair in London this September can to do so…
Yearly Meeting Gathering (YMG) begins this weekend at the University of Warwick in Coventry, the fourth YMG in the past nine years. This year there will be noticeable changes from…
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