The Committee on Clerks brought forward the names of Anne Ullathorne to serve as the clerk and Margaret Bryant to serve as the assistant clerk of Meeting for Sufferings from 1…
The 150th birthday of Friend and social reformer Ada Salter will be marked on 15 and 16 July.
Britain Yearly Meeting has made a statement on the EU referendum. The statement expressed concern that the outcome of the EU referendum and the campaigning that led up to it had…
The Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) has highlighted the importance of Quaker values in the wake of the result of the EU referendum.
The Quaker charity Friends of Hlekweni has joined with a number of other charities and faith groups in a peace education pilot project in Zimbabwe.
Refugee Week 2016 took place across Britain between 20 and 26 June. This year it celebrated acts of welcome shown to refugees by individuals and communities across the United…
Leap Confronting Conflict, the national youth charity founded and supported by Friends, has published its 2015 impact report.
The first ever Festival of Peace held by Sidcot School, the Quaker school in Somerset, attracted more than 300 visitors.
Five Quakers were present in different capacities at the World Council of Churches (WCC) Central Committee meeting in Trondheim, Norway from 22-28 June. The Friends were able to…
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