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Quaker libraries announce joint project
Britain Yearly Meeting and the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham have announced the launch of a joint development initiative.
Meeting Houses offer quiet spaces after MP’s death
Huddersfield and Wooldale Meeting Houses were among the places of worship that opened in the wake of the murder of Jo Cox, MP, on 16 June. The Meeting houses opened that evening to offer space for stillness of mind and quiet reflection.
New head for Breckenbrough
Breckenbrough, the Quaker special school in North Yorkshire, has announced that headmaster Geoff Brookes will leave in summer 2017.
Enlivening Meetings
Fifty Friends gathered in York on 11 June to discuss the value and effectiveness of Meeting for Worship.
‘Living the transformation’ in The Netherlands
‘Living the transformation’ was the theme for Netherlands Yearly Meeting, which took place from 3-5 June at Bennnekom.
Friends’ witness features at Irish Famine event
The programme at the 2016 Irish Famine Summer School and National Famine Conference includes a session on Friends’ contribution to famine relief.
G4S contract at Friends House cancelled
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has terminated a contract with security services firm G4S. G4S had provided maintenance for the access control system at Friends House for more than eight years. This will end on 3 August, when a three-month notice period expires.
Bradford Friends support statement on migrant crisis
Bradford Quakers joined other local faith communities recently to issue a statement on the migration crisis.
Leaveners videos online
Stop motion animation videos made by young Friends with the help of Quaker arts group the Leaveners are now available to view online.
June action on Trident
Trident Ploughshares has designated June 2016 a month of daily direct action against Trident renewal. The campaigning group has called on supporters to ‘resist, protest and disrupt’ the renewal of the Trident nuclear weapons system in a series of ‘creative nonviolent actions’ at Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) Burghfield.