Twenty-eight Friends squeezed together to hear Laura Shipler Chico of Quaker Peace & Social Witness’ (QPSW) overseas peacebuilding subcommittee describe the work taking place…
A dozen Friends met for the annual general meeting of the Quaker Disability Equality Group (QDEG) at a special interest group at Friends House on Sunday. QDEG’s annual report…
The session on ‘Eldership and oversight: Deepening and growth of Area Meetings’ began in a familiar pattern. Friends present were given five questions to discuss in groups of…
On Saturday afternoon Friends gathered to hear about the role of Talking Friends in helping people with impaired sight gain access to written Quaker material.
More than thirty Friends crammed into Drayton Room Four in Friends House on Saturday lunchtime for a Skype link with Sergei Grushko and Natasha Zhuravenkova in Friends House…
Five Quaker organisations from Europe and the United States have asked governments to reject the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
Britain Yearly Meeting has added its name to the list of organisations protesting against the repeal of the Human Rights Act.
Friends’ School Saffron Walden will be known as Walden School from 1 September 2016.
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