Jordans Meeting House in Buckinghamshire is the setting for a community theatre performance next week that tells the story of Friends in the first world war. ‘This production is…
The first World Quaker Day will take place on 5 October, the Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) has announced. FWCC is inviting every Quaker Meeting and Church,…
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) trustees are being asked to decide whether BYM should register with the Electoral Commission as a non-party campaigner. The move is a response to the…
The Quakers and Business Group (Q&B), formerly a registered charity, although unincorporated, has become a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). The group stressed that…
The Quaker arts group the Leaveners has announced a new partnership with youth charity The Challenge. In the first of what will hopefully be a series of activities, twenty-four…
The Quaker Asylum and Refugee Network (QARN) is campaigning for a time limit for immigration detention. In the year to the end of March 2014, 2,991 people were in detention in the…
An Old Quaker graveyard in County Wicklow, Ireland, has been transformed by the efforts of a local heritage group with the support of Irish Friends.
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