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Volunteers help with calendar
Volunteers at the Quaker Tapestry Museum have chosen tapestry panels for the museum’s 2017 calendar and offered personal responses to their favourite ones.
Quaker students face hurricane aftermath
Three-quarters of the students at Belize Friends School are absent from class due to the damage Hurricane Earl caused to their homes last month.
Work of leading peace studies scholar recognised
Paul Rogers, the global security consultant and professor of peace studies at the University of Bradford, has been awarded an honorary doctorate of laws from Leeds Beckett University for his outstanding contribution in his field.
Adam Curle remembered
The peace scholar Adam Curle is to be remembered at the University of Bradford next month, when the centenary of his birth will be marked. The Adam Curle Centenary Symposium on 5 and 6 September will bring together peace researchers and practitioners from around the world.
New cluster takes shape
The Quaker Life Network has launched a Quaker Meeting Librarians Cluster. The initiative aims to enable Friends who run their Meeting libraries to do so with confidence.
Climate justice champion at Friends House
Bill McKibben, a founder of the campaigning organisation 350.org, spoke about his work on fossil fuel divestment and the fight for climate justice at Friends House in London on 28 August.
Quakers at Greenbelt
Quakers had a vibrant presence at the Greenbelt festival of arts, faith and justice held near Kettering in Northamptonshire on 26-29 August. Outreach was a key theme with crafts for children, videos and pop-up speakers on offer throughout the bank holiday weekend along with a range of flyers, leaflets, balloons...
2016 Eva Koch scholars
Presentations were given at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham on Saturday 20 August by the four 2016 Eva Koch scholars.
Kendal Meeting House celebrates 200 years
Kendal’s historic Georgian Quaker Meeting House on Stramongate is opening up to the public to celebrate its double centenary.
African American Friends gathering
The Annual gathering of the Fellowship of Friends of African Descent was held at Arch Street Friends Meeting House in Philadelphia from 12 to 14 August.