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Meeting for Sufferings: Responding to government cuts
‘We find ourselves utterly at odds with the priorities in our society which deny the full human potential of millions of people in this country. That denial diminishes us all.’ Quaker faith & practice, 23.21 Meeting for Sufferings reaffirmed support for this statement made by London Yearly Meeting in 1987.
Meeting for Sufferings: Area Meeting Concerns
Probation Service Meeting for Sufferings (MfS) has requested advice from Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW) following receipt of a minute that set out a concern over changes to the probation service. The concern was raised at Telford Meeting and supported by Worcestershire and Shropshire Area Meeting (AM)....
Meeting for Sufferings: Young Friends welcomed
The presence of a group of young Friends, who shared in worship at Meeting for Sufferings on Saturday morning, was very much appreciated by those present.
Meeting for Sufferings: Funding Britain Yearly Meeting
The re-introduction of a quota to Meetings was rejected by Friends at Meetings for Sufferings (MfS). Britain Yearly Meeting trustees had concluded that a re-introduction of the quota would not be the right way forward. MfS was asked to consider this.
Meeting for Sufferings: Canterbury Commitment update
A Yearly Energy Survey (YES) is being developed to provide a ‘simpler and more robust’ tool to monitor energy use.
Meeting for Sufferings: New vision for British Quakers
The five-year vision for Quakers in Britain is being developed and will be set out in a new long-term framework document for 2015-20.
Meeting for Sufferings: Exhibition space sought
Artistic Friends have a dream – that one day they will be able to enjoy seeing displays of art in Friends House.
New funding priorities for JRCT
The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust has announced significant changes to its grant-making priorities for the next five to ten years. The funding for projects in the Republic of Ireland is to end and its Quaker Concerns programme is to be closed. Sustainability, however, will be an important focus for...
2014 Swarthmore lecturer announced
The 2014 Swarthmore Lecture, it has just been announced, is to be given by the Quaker author and academic Ben Pink Dandelion and will explore the theme of ‘transformation’.
Friends highlight militarisation
Quaker author and peace campaigner Diana Francis is to be one of the speakers at a conference on militarisation to be held at Friends House on 19 October.