Quaker Social Action (QSA)’s ‘Down to Earth’ campaign has been shortlisted for a prestigious Third Sector Award. The funeral poverty project is competing for the Breakthrough…
Gretchen Castle, general secretary of the Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC), offered ecumenical greetings at the recent Mennonite World Conference global assembly in…
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) and individual Friends contacted members of parliament (MPs) in the run-up to last week’s second reading of the Welfare Reform and Work Bill to…
Former publisher George Weidenfeld recently acknowledged his debt to British Quakers when describing his support for the rescue of Syrian Christians. George Weidenfeld is among the…
Chayley Collis, a Huddersfield Friend, has developed a survey on renewable energy and fossil free divestment for Meeting houses and other Quaker buildings.
George Fox Friends School in Cochranville, Chester County, Pennsylvania, has closed due to poor enrolment levels and a shortage of funding. Business manager Janet Eaby told local…
Friends will mark the seventieth anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Thursday 6 August with an interfaith service of commemoration and commitment for a…
A new walk through Winchmore Hill, north London, will highlight the days when the area was a place of refuge for Quakers. The walk will be led by City of London guide Joe Studman…
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