Trident Ploughshares has designated June 2016 a month of daily direct action against Trident renewal. The campaigning group has called on supporters to ‘resist, protest and…
Almost sixty Friends will meet in Swanwick, Derbyshire, between 17 and 19 June for the Annual Conference of Treasurers (ACT).
Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has rejected an appeal from a group of Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) staff regarding the use of their taxes.
Northfield Ecocentre’s latest project, a ‘repair café’, was launched on 3 June. The Birmingham-based environmental initiative took its inspiration from the repair cafés…
Quaker Concern for Animals (QCA) held its annual general meeting at Friends House on Saturday 21 May. Sixteen members attended. After Meeting for Worship, they heard about the…
Friends were present at the recent unveiling in Carlisle of a plaque dedicated to conscientious objectors.
Jenny McAleese has retired from The Retreat, the York mental health facility. Jenny joined The Retreat in 1996 as finance director. She became chief executive eighteen months…
The first floor meeting rooms at Friends House in London will be refurbished between June and September.
Friends House’s Catering Mark Gold Standard has been featured on the website of Oregon Tilth, an American organisation dedicated to supporting and advocating organic food and…
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