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Living wage campaign
Members of Lancaster Meeting’s Living Wage Project Group met their member of parliament on 13 November. Ann Morgan and Caro Kelly spent an hour with Cat Smith, the Labour MP for Lancaster and Fleetwood, and shadow minister for women and equalities. They spoke to her about the Quaker national Living...
Quaker photos on show at V&A
The Library at Friends House has lent four photographs to the Victoria & Albert Museum of Childhood.
Pilgrims set off for Paris
Nearly fifty pilgrims left London on 13 November to walk 200 miles to Paris to witness for action on climate change. When they reach Paris, the pilgrims will call on world leaders to agree a fair, ambitious and binding climate deal at the United Nations Climate Change Conference taking place from 30 November...
Inter Faith Week 2015
‘Living Well Together’ is one of the key themes for Inter Faith Week 2015, which takes place from 15 to 21 November. The chairs and co-chairs of the organisers, the Inter Faith Network, released a statement following the attacks in Paris on 13 November.
Young Friends highlight refugee crisis
Young Friends from Penrith Meeting will walk from Penrith to Carlisle to raise money for relief in refugee camps. The twenty-three-mile-long walk takes place on 22 November. Participants will raise money for the Carlisle One World Centre which, through an initiative called Calais Action Carlisle, will support refugees over the coming...
Fuel poverty training launched
Northfield Ecocentre, a Central England Area Meeting project, has announced a new half-day training course on fuel poverty.
Broadcast postponed
BBC Radio 4 has postponed its Sunday Worship Prisons Week broadcast, recorded at HMP Long Lartin.
Pendle Hill on network radio
Woodbrooke tutor Ben Pink Dandelion will discuss Pendle Hill on a forthcoming edition of BBC Radio 4’s Open Country.
White poppy sales increase
One hundred thousand white poppies were sold in 2015, reflecting an upward trend in sales.
Arms fair action
Campaigners gathered in London on 16 November to show solidary with activists who are resisting an arms fair in Wellington, New Zealand.