Twenty five members of Quaker African Interest Group (QAG) met at the Priory Rooms in Birmingham on 20 February. The event was for both ‘old Africa hands’ and newcomers to the…
The Methodist Tax Justice Network (MTJN ) has launched a campaign against Mondelez UK, the owners of Cadbury. The move was prompted by the news that the company paid no corporation…
Britain Yearly Meeting has produced a guide to the Scottish parliamentary election, which will take place on 5 May. Topics addressed in the briefing include militarisation in…
Ruth Davidson, leader of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party and member of the Scottish parliament for Glasgow, delivered the third annual Joseph Rowntree Foundation and…
Friends in Beccles, Suffolk, have replaced the roof of their Meeting house.
Friends at Meeting for Sufferings, held at Friends House on Saturday 6 February, addressed the subject of the plight of refugees and how Quakers might respond to the present…
Frances Voelcker, a member of the Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) Sustainability Group, spoke to the group’s written report. She stressed that only half of Area Meetings have…
Meeting for Sufferings continued with its work on the new framework document, Our faith in the future. The focus remained on life in Area Meetings. Friends gathered in ‘home…
Meeting for Sufferings was informed of a minute from the Church Government Advisory Group (CGAG) held on 14 October 2015 on budgeting and updates to Quaker faith & practice…
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