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Jewish worship in York
York will again see regular Jewish services, almost forty years after its last synagogue closed – at Friargate Meeting House. The first Shabbat morning service will take place on Saturday 14 June, led by Liberal Judaism’s chief executive, rabbi Danny Rich. Subsequent services will be held on the second Saturday...
New Meeting house opens for worship
The new Kingston Quaker Centre in South West London will host its first Meeting for Worship at 10am on Sunday 15 June. The following Sunday, the Centre will hold a ‘friends and family day’. Beginning at 10am with a Meeting for Worship, this will continue until 4pm, with lunch, musical...
British Museum action continue
London-based Friends staged a third protest at the British Museum on Tuesday 3 June. A group of sixteen people held a silent Meeting for Worship in the building’s atrium as an act of witness in opposition to the role of BP as a corporate sponsor of the museum. ...
Prisoners need more help
More needs to be done to help prisoners, asserts a former Quaker prison chaplain in a new book. Confessions of a Prison Chaplain, by Mary Brown, was published last week and deals with her experience of the criminal justice system. ‘One in three prisoners have been in care...
Brighton Friends seek ideas for new initiative
Friends in Brighton are seeking ideas from other Quaker Meetings for an initiative that aims to bring together people who hold different views on the Palestine/Israel conflict. They intend to offer Brighton Meeting House as a place of ‘encounter and sharing’ for local people concerned with the situation.
New Rowntree biography
A new biography of the Victorian philanthropist, educationalist and social reformer Joseph Rowntree is to be published in the autumn.
Cadbury story on film
The conflicts faced by the Cadbury family of Birmingham in the first world war were featured in a half-hour film on BBC One West Midlands on 2 June.
Election success for Quakers
Two Quaker candidates have been successful at the recent European elections. Stroud Meeting’s Molly Scott Cato has become the first Green Party MEP for the South West, while Judith Kirton-Darling, who is a member of Belgium and Luxembourg Yearly Meeting and attends Hexham Meeting, was elected Labour MEP...
Meeting Houses Heritage Project launched
An exciting new heritage project was launched on 3 May at Hartington Grove Meeting House in Cambridge. Friends from Area Meetings across East Anglia heard about the The Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project, for which English Heritage is providing generous non-Lottery funding. The new project will provide Britain Yearly...
Sidcot students re-enact trial
History has been brought to life by students at Sidcot School in a dramatic re-enactment of the court martial of a prominent Quaker conscientious objector in world war one. At a special assembly, held to commemorate International Conscientious Objectors Day on 15 May, students were involved in the re-enactment of...