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Claridge House welcomes visitors again

22 September 2016 | by The Friend Newsdesk | 0 comments

Claridge House. | John Hall.

Claridge House, the Quaker retreat centre between Dormansland and Lingfield, has reopened after being closed for six months due to an extensive programme of refurbishment.

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Borderless Friendship flourishes

22 September 2016 | by Tara Craig | 0 comments

Renke Meuwese giving his keynote presentation. | Kate McNally.

The plight of refugees was highlighted when Friends gathered recently for the River Rhine Border Meeting.

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Changing the narrative for peace

22 September 2016 | by The Friend Newsdesk | 0 comments

The need to ‘change the narrative for peace’ via the media will be addressed by Friends in Darlington in a conference organised by the Northern Friends Peace Board.

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Inter Faith Week celebrates eighth year

22 September 2016 | by The Friend Newsdesk | 0 comments

National Inter Faith Week takes place this year from 13-20 November.

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Meeting in the Sky

22 September 2016 | by Tara Craig | 0 comments

James Turrell, Deer Shelter Skyspace, 2006. An Art Fund Commission. Courtesy the artist and Yorkshire Sculpture Park. | © Jonty Wilde.

Twenty Friends held Meeting for Worship in the James Turrell designed Deer Shelter Skyspace at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in West Bretton, near Wakefield, on Friday 9 September.

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Sustainability gathering

22 September 2016 | by Tara Craig | 0 comments

The future development of the Living Witness group and how Friends address the challenges of implementing the Canterbury Commitment is to be addressed by Friends.

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Break up the banks?

22 September 2016 | by The Friend Newsdesk | 0 comments

The contentious, difficult, knotty and puzzling issues of how money does and doesn’t work for people are to being addressed by London Quakers in early October.

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Friends urged to be creative in Quaker Week

22 September 2016 | by The Friend Newsdesk | 0 comments

Quakers throughout Britain will be marking the ninth annual Quaker Week from 1-9 October by welcoming visitors to share the stillness of silent Quaker worship in their Meetings and putting on a wide range of outreach activities.

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Friends support call for revised refugee policy

FREE 15 September 2016 | by The Friend Newsdesk | 0 comments

Paul Parker, recording clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting, is one of 200 leaders of faith communities who have signed an open letter to Theresa May calling for urgent changes to the government’s refugee policy, particularly to allow families to be reunited.

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QPSW introduces latest peaceworkers

FREE 15 September 2016 | by Tara Craig | 1 comment | 1 comments

Ready for peacework | Michael Preston/Quakers in Britain.

Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW) has revealed the identities of its six new peaceworkers. The six will work within peace organisations for a year, helping at local, regional and international level, explained Steve Whiting of QPSW. He said: ‘The peaceworkers are paid and gain experience to help them build...

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