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Friends House to host major conference for health professionals
Friends House in London is to host a major two-day conference on ‘Health Through Peace’ in November. A coalition of health and peace organisations – including Medact, The Lancet, the Oxford Research Group, Saferworld, the Religious Society of Friends and Kings College London – hope to bring one thousand people together for...
Quakers help ‘at risk’ groups in Nepal
Rice and relief packages for pregnant women have been organised by Friends and distributed to victims of the recent earthquakes in Nepal. Quaker South Asia Interest Group (QSAIG) correspondent Subhash Kattel and friends travelled by motorbike to Koshidekha village in the Kavre district, two and a half hours from Kathmandu....
Quakers lead the way with the Lobbying Act
The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) is the first charity to declare donations under the terms of the new Lobbying Act. The Society was one of twelve charities to register for the Act, known formally as The Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014. The Act requires...
Friends in Burundi face unrest
David Bucura of the Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) has called on Quakers worldwide to remember those dealing with the ongoing political upheaval in Burundi. The city of Bujumbura has been at the centre of a failed military coup. Its inhabitants continue to face significant disruption, and a number...
New Meeting house for Stockport Friends
Stockport QUAKERs celebrated the opening of their sixth Meeting house on Sunday 17 May with an all-age Meeting for Worship. Around sixty Friends gathered at the event. Many of them were from other Meetings in East Cheshire.
Welwyn Garden City Meeting House reopens
WElwyn Garden City Friends were joined by family and neighbours on 16 May for the official reopening of the Meeting house on Handside Lane, following a major refurbishment. Over a hundred people toured the new facilities. They heard about the history of the building, which is ninety years old this year,...
Friends House wins architectural award
The refurbished Large Meeting House at Friends House was among the winners of the Royal Institute of British Architecture (RIBA)’s London Award 2015. RIBA described the refurbishment as ‘incisive in its approach’ and highlighted a number of key features. Among them are the roof light, which evokes the work of...
Investment on the agenda
The investment policy of animal charities was highlighted recently at Quaker Concern for Animals (QCA)’s annual general meeting. A dozen members of the group met at Friends House to discuss a number of topics. Among them was the services the group provides. Participants were asked which services are most...
Woodbrooke welcomes a new face
The Wookbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham has appointed Mark Russ as nurturing Friends and Meetings tutor.
Conscientious objectors remembered
Friends across Britain marked International Conscientious Objectors’ Day on 15 May. Liverpool Quaker Peace Group and Merseyside Peace Network organised a stall, where they drew attention to the fact that ‘conscription is still a reality in many countries’. Edward Bruce, convenor of the Peace Group, said: ‘We have found it so...