7th October 2016

Meeting for Sufferings: Exploring priorities and balances

by Elinor Smallman

Meeting for Sufferings returned to questions relating to the Yearly Meeting 2015 minute ‘Living out our faith (call for equality)’ that it had not had time to consider in…

7th October 2016

Meeting for Sufferings: Area Meeting concerns heard

by Elinor Smallman

Minutes from four Area Meetings (AMs) were brought to Sufferings for consideration. Brighouse West Yorkshire AM raised the Ammerdown Invitation and Friends’ responses to it. The…

7th October 2016

TTT website goes live

by Tara Craig

The new website for Turning the Tide is now live. The bright, user-friendly website contains information and resources on the work of Turning the Tide. Some tools are available…

7th October 2016

Quakers address state of banking system

by The Friend Newsdesk

A one day conference on the state of the banking system was held at Friends House, London, on Saturday 1 October.

Friends stand with Standing Rock Sioux
23rd September 2016

Friends stand with Standing Rock Sioux

by Tara Craig
23rd September 2016

Quaker Meeting in new television crime thriller

by The Friends Newsdesk

Several scenes in the new eight-part ITV/Netflix conspiracy thriller Paranoid have been filmed in Frandley Meeting House in Cheshire.

23rd September 2016

Quakers in France reflect on slavery

by The Friend Newsdesk

A commemoration of the abolition of slavery in the past and a recognition of slavery in the world today was part of France Yearly Meeting held at the Centre des Naudières near…

23rd September 2016

Scottish Friends back petition

by The Friend Newsdesk

Quakers in Scotland and ForcesWatch presented a petition to the Scottish Parliament on Thursday 15 September calling for greater scrutiny, guidance and consultation on the visits…

23rd September 2016

Friends open doors

by Tara Craig

More than forty Meeting houses opened to the public during Heritage Open Days, from 8-11 September.

Claridge House welcomes visitors again
23rd September 2016

Claridge House welcomes visitors again

by The Friend Newsdesk
Borderless Friendship flourishes
23rd September 2016

Borderless Friendship flourishes

by Tara Craig
23rd September 2016

Changing the narrative for peace

by The Friend Newsdesk

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.