3rd June 2016

Britain Yearly Meeting 2016: Passport loss fails to derail Swarthmore Lecture

by Tara Craig

This year’s Swarthmore Lecture, Mending broken hearts; rebuilding shattered lives: Quaker peacebuilding in Eastern Africa, was delivered in one voice, rather than two, as…

3rd June 2016

Britain Yearly Meeting 2016: Centrally managed work

by Roland Carn

The wide range of centrally managed work done in the name of Friends by Britain Yearly Meeting staff was the subject of an informative session on Friday afternoon. A number of…

3rd June 2016

Britain Yearly Meeting 2016: Behind the scenes

by The Friend

The dedication and hard work of employees of the Friends House Hospitality Company (FHHC), who look after all aspects of the security, cleaning, reception, catering and running of…

3rd June 2016

Britain Yearly Meeting 2016: Building a new economy

by Roland Carn

Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW) hosted a lively interest group on Saturday 28 May entitled: ‘Building a new economy: simple, equal, economic stewardship.’

3rd June 2016

Britain Yearly Meeting 2016: United against Trident

by Laurence Hall

Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW), the Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) and Young Friends General Meeting (YFGM), brought together by a shared witness against nuclear…

3rd June 2016

Britain Yearly Meeting 2016: Mindful approach works for Quaker Social Action

by Tara Craig

Mindfulness is part of the toolkit Quaker Social Action (QSA) deploys in its This Way Up (TWU) project, which aims to help people set achievable goals and develop coping…

3rd June 2016

Britain Yearly Meeting 2016: Ethical Landlords Association

by Ian Kirk-Smith

The dramatic increase in the number of people relying on private rented accommodation was highlighted in an interest group on ethical landlords. The session, which was used to…

3rd June 2016

Britain Yearly Meeting 2016: QPSW: Climate Justice: what does money have to do with it

by Roland Carn

Friends were told, in the interest group on climate justice, that if we do nothing the resulting chaos would be devastating.

3rd June 2016

Britain Yearly Meeting 2016: Central Nominations Committee

by Noël Staples

The work of the Central Nomination Committee’s (CNC) twenty-one members is perhaps the most important and least well-known and understood of all the major Yearly Meeting (YM)…

3rd June 2016

Britain Yearly Meeting 2016: The stories behind the statistics

by Elinor Smallman

A challenging production by Journeymen Theatre left a hushed audience with food for thought on Saturday. Lynn and David Morris performed ‘Feeding the Darkness… Shining a Light…

3rd June 2016

Britain Yearly Meeting 2016: Welsh pacifists celebrated

by Ian Kirk-Smith

The inspiring work of two nineteenth century Welsh pacifists was highlighted in a well-received public lecture at Yearly Meeting. Richard C Allen, reader in early modern history at…