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BFI backing helps The Divide to cinematic release
A British Film Institute (BFI) award is helping to bring The Divide, a documentary looking at inequality, to cinemas across the United Kingdom. The BFI’s ‘New Models’ distribution award ‘supports experimental and ambitious release models, and creative marketing strategies that seek to exploit new opportunities outside traditional theatrical and...
Friends urge change on the visit of armed forces to schools
Quakers in Scotland have joined with the charity ForcesWatch in appealing to the Scottish government to ensure greater scrutiny, guidance and consultation with parents and guardians on armed forces visits to schools in Scotland.
Sustainability gathering registration speeds up
Registration for Britain Yearly Meeting’s forthcoming sustainability gathering has gathered momentum following a plea at Meeting for Sufferings.
Ethical Landlords Association
A new initiative has been established that aims to improve standards of management of private rented housing in the UK — the Ethical Landlords Association (ELA), which is supported by Quaker Housing Trust.
Fair funeral coup for QSA
Quaker Social Action (QSA) is celebrating the biggest commitment that has so far been given to its Fair Funerals pledge.
New Quaker charity hopes to ‘fill gap’
Quaker Action on Domestic Violence (QADV) launched on 19 February, following a year of preparation. Director Kate Mellor told the Friend that the new charity came about as a direct result of the work of Quaker Homeless Action (QHA), of which she is also director.
Quakers oppose changes to investment and procurement rules
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has issued a response to the government’s plans to ban local councils from making ethical choices in their pension investments and procurements.
Hotel plans threaten peace in Exeter
A planned seven-storey hotel in central Exeter, if built, will ‘totally dominate the Meeting House and… invade the privacy of those wishing to use the building and the garden’, say local Friends.
Friends take to the streets
Members of Bury St Edmunds Meeting held a silent vigil to witness against the renewal of the Trident submarine programme on Sunday 21 February.
QSA welcomes Earlham students
Four students from Earlham College, Indiana, an American university founded by Quakers, are visiting Quaker Social Action (QSA). Thea White, Kyra Williams, Hao Nguyen and Brittani Reno will be with QSA until April, working on two major research projects. Thea and Kyra are researching food poverty while Hao and Brittani...