Three hundred and fifty-six years after a Quaker was arrested in Chichester Cathedral for arguing with a priest and then imprisoned, Friends were invited back to the building to…
Amid escalating violence in Gaza, Quakers in Britain have written this ‘open letter’ to William Hague, the foreign secretary. ‘Quakers in Britain are deeply concerned by the…
West Kent Quakers are converting their Tunbridge Wells Meeting House to include ten single-occupancy flats for homeless young people. The young people will spend time in a more…
The Eco-Justice Working Group of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting has announced that more than $2 million of the group’s assets have been disinvested from fossil fuels. The group has…
Whilst attending the recent Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) International Gathering in Maynooth, County Kildare, Bolivian Friend Magaly Quispe Yujra visited Friends in…
More than 160 delegates from forty countries are gathering in Maynooth in Ireland from 13 to 19 July for the International Gathering of the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP).…
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) is supporting a new prize for in-depth journalism. ‘The Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils’ will be awarded for the first…
On Tuesday 1 July some 400 Bootham School students, aged between eleven and eighteen, took part in a ‘whole school service day’. Inspired and organised by history teacher and…
Quaker Social Action (QSA) has gained the Living Wage Foundation’s certification. This means that every member of the east London charity’s staff, including contracted workers,…
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