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Green accolade for Friends House
Friends House was highly commended in the ‘Outstanding Contribution to Environmental Sustainability’ category of the recent Camden Business Awards.
Accommodation grants bolster independent living
The Quaker Housing Trust (QHT) has awarded grants to two projects providing accommodation for older people. Roddam Dene House in Wooler, Northumberland, will provide four flats for the over-fifty-fives. The former manse has been converted into homes that will allow residents to continue to live independently, close to shops and...
Drone protestors’ trial postponed
The trial of four peace campaigners has been postponed until October. The four were due to be tried at Lincoln Magistrates Court on 27 May. They were accused of causing criminal damage to the perimeter fence of RAF Waddington.
Divestment continues to strike a chord with Friends
The Friends World Commit-tee for Consultation (FWCC) is the latest Quaker organisation to consider divesting from companies engaged in the extraction and distribution of fossil fuels.
Hlekweni maps out its future
A new strategy was announced by the Friends of Hlekweni at a recent business meeting held at Milton Keynes Meeting House on 31 May. The strategy was the result of nine months’ work, following the closure of the Hlekweni Friends Rural Service Centre in June 2014.
Settle Friends raise the roof
The roof of Settle Meeting House has been stripped, repaired and replaced. Settle Meeting treasurer John Asher told the Friend that ‘while the Meeting house cost just £80 to build in 1678, the 2015 repair bill for the roof alone will be some £30,000’.
New notes at Bunhill
The Quaker Music Group has held its first meeting. Five Friends gathered recently at Bunhill Fields Meeting House in London. They brought with them ‘a whole bunch of instruments’, organiser Mike Brooks, of Westminster Meeting, told the Friend. These included a ukulele, a guitar, a viola, a violin, a recorder...
Eccles Friends enjoy a new room with a view
Friends in Eccles are enjoying their new garden room refurbishment after three years of hard work in planning, fundraising and building.
Fuel poverty tackled in joint effort
Churches, charities and an electricity provider have united to launch the first fuel banks in Britain. The Trussell Trust, National Energy Action, npower and Durham Christian Partnership are behind the pilot scheme. It is being trialled in Durham, Gloucester and Kingston-upon- Thames over a three-month period. Users of the service...
Student pressure prompts divestment U-turn
The campaign to promote divestment from fossil fuels, pioneered by faith groups such as the Religious Society of Friends, continues to gain momentum in Britain. Student campaigners in Scotland claim their actions have convinced the University of Edinburgh to rethink its recent decision not to divest from funds (see the...