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FAU records made more accessible
Personnel records of the Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU) in the first world war are now available online. The records are free to access and cover FAU membership between 1914 and 1919.
New booklets highlight housing concern
The Quaker Housing Trust (QHT) has published two booklets in advance of the general election to highlight a concern over housing in Britain today.
Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust and Cage
The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT) has defended its past funding of the campaign group Cage. In a press conference last week Asim Qureshi, research director of Cage, accused the security services of contributing to the ‘radicalisation’ of Mohammed Emwazi, the British militant who has featured in a number of...
BYM and ForcesWatch in joint statement
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has joined charity ForcesWatch in criticising a recent government resource for schools, that they feel promotes ‘military values’. The organisations used a written report and a graphic to argue that the British Armed Forces Learning Resource (published in September 2014 by the prime minister’s office) is...
Climate change highlighted
There are approximately two decades left to achieve the large-scale decarbonisation necessary to avoid dangerous climate change, Irish Friends were told recently in Cork by a leading researcher on climate change.
New home for Christchurch Quakers
Christchurch Meeting of the Yearly Meeting of Aotearoa/New Zealand has found a new home. The original Meeting house and surrounding land were destroyed in the September 2010 Canterbury earthquake.
Conscientious objector joins the Peace Hub celebration in Birmingham
Second world war conscientious objector Hugh Maw was among those marking the official opening of a new peace centre in Birmingham. The Peace Hub, a Central England Quakers project, opened on 26 February. Local school children and members of the public joined Paul Sabapthy, lord lieutenant for the West Midlands, and...
Conference highlights building peace in diverse Britain
An inspiring talk on the experience of being a Muslim woman growing up in West Yorkshire and working for peace in the area was a highlight of a recent Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) event.
Friends to host hustings
Quakers will host hustings with the main political parties in the approach to the general election. Hustings will take place around Britain, including at Friends House in London. The aim is to stimulate an alternative conversation on topics such as justice, democracy and peace, Trident, sustainability and economic inequality.
Friends make history in Scotland
The first same-sex marriage carried out by a recognised church in Scotland was recently celebrated by Edinburgh Friends. Mark Bitel and Tony Gross were married on Valentine’s Day at Edinburgh Meeting House. They were joined by more than two hundred family, friends and fellow Quakers.