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Claridge House welcomes visitors again
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.
Borderless Friendship flourishes
The plight of refugees was highlighted when Friends gathered recently for the River Rhine Border Meeting.
Changing the narrative for peace
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.
Inter Faith Week celebrates eighth year
National Inter Faith Week takes place this year from 13-20 November.
Meeting in the Sky
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.
Sustainability gathering
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.
Break up the banks?
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.
Friends urged to be creative in Quaker Week
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.
Friends support call for revised refugee policy
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.
QPSW introduces latest peaceworkers
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...