The decision to recognise same and opposite sex marriage as equal, made at Yearly Meeting in 2009, has been included in amendments to chapter sixteen in the fifth edition of…
The Salter Statues Campaign has now broken the £35,000 barrier in a fundraising campaign aimed at raising £50,000. In November 2011 the bronze statue of Alfred Salter was…
Friends throughout Wales are responding to a concern that the Quaker voice should be clearly heard among the many activities to commemorate the centenary of the first world war.
Bookings for Yearly Meeting Gathering, to be held in Bath in August 2014, are now open. Friends House have provided information on their website that gives background and…
Up to one in four school governor positions is vacant in some schools in rural and deprived areas of England. SGOSS – Governors for Schools, the educational charity, has…
A major theme of Meeting for Sufferings, held on Saturday 7 December at Friends House, London, was that of ‘Quaker values in education’. Friends were ‘making a start…
Property dominated the report on the work of Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) trustees. The report was given by the clerk of BYM trustees, Jennifer Barraclough. Having realised…
Friends at Meeting for Sufferings were told that a decision has been made to give an additional name to the Large Meeting House in Friends House.
Paul Parker, recording clerk for Britain Yearly Meeting, told Meeting for Sufferings how Friends House had responded to a request by Yearly Meeting 2013 to look at the tabular…
The Canterbury Commitment Group presented their interim report. The group told Meeting for Sufferings that there had been widespread approval of the decision to publicly disinvest…
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