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…
Olympic silver medallist rower Gillian Lindsay has been appointed by The Mount School in York as their new director of sport and wellbeing. Gillian was a national champion…
A concern over the number of younger Friends asking for early release from Central Nominations Committee (CNC) was raised at Meeting for Sufferings.
It was proposed at Meeting for Sufferings that a new Canterbury Commitment Group be formed to take up the work of the Minute 36 (Canterbury) Commitment Group. The group, it…
A very positive note was sounded by Jennifer Barraclough, clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) trustees, when she spoke to Meeting for Sufferings (MfS) of the work of the…
The diverse work and witness of the Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) was reported to Meeting for Sufferings. Sarah Coote, Britain Yearly Meeting representative to…
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