4th July 2014

Three Westminster Friends receive honours

by Tara Craig

Three members of Westminster Meeting, London, featured in the recent birthday honours list. Michael Bartlet, lately parliamentary liaison secretary for the Religious Society of…

4th July 2014

FWCC meets in Moyallon

by Tara Craig

Sixteen representatives of the Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) took part in a residential meeting at The Moyallon Centre in Northern Ireland last week. The centre…

4th July 2014

Quakers reject Trident Commission recommendations

by Tara Craig

Quakers in Britain strongly disagree with the conclusion of a report published this week that says the UK should retain its nuclear deterrent. The report by the independent…

Friends General Conference Gathering underway
4th July 2014

Friends General Conference Gathering underway

by Tara Craig
27th June 2014

Quakers return to Crewe after 90 years

by The Friend Newsdesk

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…

Blue plaque unveiled
27th June 2014

Blue plaque unveiled

by The Friend Newsdesk
27th June 2014

Film launch at Friends House

by The Friend Newsdesk

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…

27th June 2014

YMG 2014 is full

by The Friend Newsdesk

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…

Green light for garden
27th June 2014

Green light for garden

by The Friend Newsdesk
20th June 2014

Teenage girls get new start

by Tara Craig

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…

20th June 2014

Friends celebrate landmark prison Meetings

by Tara Craig

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…