QARN, the Quaker Asylum and Refugee Network, is calling on Friends to help it challenge the government over new charges for renewing discretionary leave to remain status for asylum…
Sessions at Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) will this year be relayed via an audiovisual link to an overflow room in Friends House. The initiative is one of a number that have been…
Paul Parker, recording clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting, has written to the prime minister to express Quakers’ concern at the plight of migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean.
The problems of identity and stereotyping were among those addressed at a Quaker event in Huddersfield on 19 April when forty young people met to share and discuss the issues they…
Britain Yearly Meeting’s second hustings attracted more than 200 people. It took place in the Large Meeting House on Tuesday 21 April. All five main parties were represented.…
A survey sent out by Friends to general election candidates across Gloucestershire elicited some unexpected responses. Candidates from four of the five political parties running…
The Quaker Life Network’s newly published Encounters with mental distress: Quaker stories will be launched on Saturday 2 May at Yearly Meeting.
The Social Justice Group of Manchester and Warrington Area Meeting has sent questions to local parliamentary candidates. The nine questions focused on peace, the environment,…
Dorking Quakers hosted an election hustings on 17 April, attracting 140 participants. All candidates in the Mole Valley constituency, which includes Dorking, took part, and each of…
The Retreat, the York mental health facility, has applied for planning permission to build a new patient day care facility for the treatment of patients with eating disorders.
Quaker Life Central Committee (QLCC) is setting up a working group on end of life issues.
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