2nd September 2016

Kendal Meeting House celebrates 200 years

by The Friend Newsdesk

Kendal’s historic Georgian Quaker Meeting House on Stramongate is opening up to the public to celebrate its double centenary.

2nd September 2016

African American Friends gathering

by The Friend Newsdesk

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.

2nd September 2016

Spare the wasps, Friends urged

by Tara Craig

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…

2nd September 2016

Cooking for our Future

by Tara Craig

Friends in Ludlow have contributed twenty-one recipes to a new cookery book, Cooking for our Future.

26th August 2016

Changes in store for microcredit project

by Tara Craig

The Quaker Congo Partnership (QCP) is to provide additional training for participants in its microcredit project.

26th August 2016

Jamaica YM celebrates 75 years

by Tara Craig

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.

26th August 2016

Japanese group enjoys seeing Quaker sights

by Tara Craig

A group of students from the Friends School in Tokyo visited the Quaker Tapestry Museum in Kendal on 12 August.

26th August 2016

New Rowntree report highlights the ‘left behind’

by The Friend Newsdesk

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…

Stories of Welsh Quakers taken on tour
26th August 2016

Stories of Welsh Quakers taken on tour

by Tara Craig
26th August 2016

Refugee project survey

by Tara Craig

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…

19th August 2016

Kendal’s Quaker stories captured for posterity

by Tara Craig

A new booklet from the Quaker Tapestry Museum in Kendal takes readers on a walk through the town’s Quaker history.