13th March 2015

FAU records made more accessible

by Tara Craig

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…

13th March 2015

New booklets highlight housing concern

by Tara Craig

The Quaker Housing Trust (QHT) has published two booklets in advance of the general election to highlight a concern over housing in Britain today.

6th March 2015

Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust and Cage

by The Friend Newsdesk

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,…

6th March 2015

BYM and ForcesWatch in joint statement

by Tara Craig

Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has joined charity ForcesWatch in criticising a recent government resource for schools, that they feel promotes ‘military values’. The…

6th March 2015

Climate change highlighted

by Tara Craig

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…

6th March 2015

New home for Christchurch Quakers

by Tara Craig

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…

6th March 2015

Conference highlights building peace in diverse Britain

by Tara Craig

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…

6th March 2015

Friends to host hustings

by Tara Craig

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.…

27th February 2015

Friends make history in Scotland

by Tara Craig

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…

27th February 2015

QARN considers the plight of asylum seekers

by Tara Craig

More than fifty Friends and others gathered from 6 to 8 February for a conference organised by the Quaker Asylum and Refugee Network (QARN) in partnership with the Woodbrooke…

Friends to take part in Burghfield lockdown
27th February 2015

Friends to take part in Burghfield lockdown

by Tara Craig