Quakers were among forty peace activists who set up a ten-day peace camp at the main gate of RAF Lakenheath to witness against the return of US nuclear weapons.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has said that it holds in the Light the five Just Stop Oil (JSO) protestors who were sentenced to four and five years in prison last week. The climate…
Lewes Meeting has won an award for a renovation project to its Grade 2-listed building.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) welcomed the UN’s International Court of Justice (ICJ)’s ruling last month that the Israeli presence in all occupied Palestinian territory,…
Quaker Social Action (QSA) has highlighted a ‘postcode lottery for council funerals’ in a new report published last week. Councils have a legal duty to carry out a funeral for…
Quakers in Devon have helped raise £1,200 for children displaced by conflict. Hilary Prentice, from Totnes Meeting, and Steve Day and Stephen Sterling, from Ashburton Meeting,…
The land and buildings of the former Bamford Quaker Community in the Peak District are up for sale.
Friends House has been awarded two prestigious accreditations. The Meetings Industry Association (MIA) gave the venue a Gold accreditation, while the ‘Accredited in Meetings’…
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) joined twenty-two other signatories last week in congratulating Keir Starmer on his appointment as prime minister. The letter also urged him to tell…
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