The Quaker-led French group Stop Fuelling War (SFW) has said that last month’s riots in France have made the need to rethink security more pressing than ever.
Quakers are marking Hiroshima Day this weekend, with open days and public events across the country. The event will honour the seventy-eighth anniversary since the first atomic…
Quakers in Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and Herefordshire are celebrating the news that an arms fair they have long-campaigned against has no plans to return.
A US Quaker has called for US Congress to stop community gun violence by investing in ‘violence interrupter programs’.
A new Quaker equity network is to look at how differences, including those attributed to race, class, sex and neurodiversity, are interlinked, in order to build a better future.
Rupert Read, the Quaker who delivered this year’s Salter Lecture, has co-launched a new climate movement. The Climate Majority Project (CMP) is aimed at harnessing the growing…
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has joined 289 organisations to uphold and stand alongside those affected by the government’s ‘senselessly cruel’ Illegal Migration Act. The bill…
The playwright and actor Michael Mears has had an application for Arts Council funding turned down. He was hoping for support for a twenty-eight-day tour of his play The Mistake.…
Friends have helped highlight the legacy of early atomic scientists in peace lessons for secondary schools.
The Quaker group Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) is calling on all governments and international organisations to create ‘the preconditions for a just peace’, in light of…
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