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Spare the wasps, Friends urged
The Quaker Concern for Animals (QCA) has called on Meetings to dispose of wasps humanely. QCA’s Thom Bonneville stressed that wasps are important because they help with pollination and will leave of their own accord in the autumn.
Cooking for our Future
Friends in Ludlow have contributed twenty-one recipes to a new cookery book, Cooking for our Future.
Woodbrooke appointment
Rhiannon Grant of Watford Meeting has been appointed tutor for Quaker roles at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham.
Changes in store for microcredit project
The Quaker Congo Partnership (QCP) is to provide additional training for participants in its microcredit project.
Jamaica YM celebrates 75 years
Friends came together in Jamaica on the weekend of 19-21 August to celebrate the seventy-fifth Yearly Meeting of the Friends Church on the island.
Japanese group enjoys seeing Quaker sights
A group of students from the Friends School in Tokyo visited the Quaker Tapestry Museum in Kendal on 12 August.
New Rowntree report highlights the ‘left behind’
A new report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) shows that people living in thousands of deprived areas, particularly in cities, are disconnected from the jobs on offer and often lack the skills to take up available roles.
Stories of Welsh Quakers taken on tour
Local storyteller Carol Pearce is bringing the stories of Montgomeryshire Quakers in the seventeenth century to a wide audience on her current tour.
Refugee project survey
The Quaker Asylum and Refugee Network (QARN) and the Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) are collecting information from Friends on concerns and actions relating to refugees and asylum seekers.
Kendal’s Quaker stories captured for posterity
A new booklet from the Quaker Tapestry Museum in Kendal takes readers on a walk through the town’s Quaker history.