Regular worship among Friends in the Crewe and Nantwich area has moved back to Crewe for the first time since 1922. Meetings for Worship take place at the Coppenhall…
A new film that highlights a growing concern among young people about the promotion of military activities in schools is to be launched at Friends House on the evening of 26…
Yearly Meeting Gathering (YMG) 2014 is oversubscribed. There are 2,018 people booked for the event at Bath, including day visitors. This compares with 1,662 at Canterbury, in…
Vulnerable teenage girls are to be helped by a largely Quaker-funded project that has just been opened in Tamworth. Quaker Housing Trust (QHT) trustee Jeffery Smith presided…
A group of American Quakers has just marked forty years of Meetings for Worship at the Auburn Correction Facility in New York state. The Meetings, which were the first in…
Friends House Hospitality has been awarded a Good Chicken Award by Compassion in World Farming (CiWF). This award recognises the steps that the company have taken to ensure that…
Quakers in Aotearoa New Zealand agreed at their recent Yearly Meeting to withdraw funds from the four main Australian-owned banks because of their investment in fossil…
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