Many Friends have welcomed the news that Jean Vanier, founder of L’Arche, has won the 2015 Templeton Prize.
The application was submitted by the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice. It was withdrawn on 12 March on the instruction of the home secretary. ‘This is a great achievement…
The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT) has announced that it will not fund the campaign group Cage again. The decision was announced on 6 March and follows a request from the…
Ten Friends are among those campaigning for the University of York to become a Living Wage-accredited employer. The university’s Labour Club, Socialist Society, Liberal Democrats…
The findings of the All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into the Use of Immigration Detention in the United Kingdom Report have been welcomed by the Quaker Asylum and Refugee Network…
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…
The Quaker Housing Trust (QHT) has published two booklets in advance of the general election to highlight a concern over housing in Britain today.
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,…
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has joined charity ForcesWatch in criticising a recent government resource for schools, that they feel promotes ‘military values’. The…
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…
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