Kendal’s historic Georgian Quaker Meeting House on Stramongate is opening up to the public to celebrate its double centenary.
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.
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…
Friends in Ludlow have contributed twenty-one recipes to a new cookery book, Cooking for our Future.
The Quaker Congo Partnership (QCP) is to provide additional training for participants in its microcredit project.
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.
A group of students from the Friends School in Tokyo visited the Quaker Tapestry Museum in Kendal on 12 August.
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…
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…
A new booklet from the Quaker Tapestry Museum in Kendal takes readers on a walk through the town’s Quaker history.
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