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Kath Russell bows out at Woodbrooke
Delicious cakes and morning tea were on the table in the new Garden Lounge at Woodbrooke on Friday 5 May as Kath Russell, head of centre development at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham, said goodbye to staff and handed over to her successor, Darrell Farnsworth.
Friends walk to celebrate 100 years of NFPB peace witness
Friends will be walking to RAF Menwith Hill to mark one hundred years of peace witness. The walk, from Saturday 29 June to Friday 5 July, is organised by the Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB), which was founded in 1913. The walk begins at Richmond Castle, where the ‘Richmond Sixteen’, who were...
Reinventing QLGF
At the recent Spring gathering of the Quaker Lesbian and Gay Fellowship (QLGF) Michael Hutchinson challenged members to focus on the future without forgetting the past.
‘Ground the drones’ march
Friends from East Cheshire, Bolton and Chester took part in the Ground the Drones march held on Saturday 27 April at RAF Waddington.
Campaign for Elizabeth Fry
A campaign to keep Quaker social reformer Elizabeth Fry on the £5 bank note is gaining momentum.
Award for Coventry Quaker
A Coventry Quaker has been given an award for her services to the community. Anne Burkett, the Quaker representative in the Coventry Inter Faith Network, recently received an invitation, together with other members of Coventry Meeting, to attend the one hundredth anniversary celebration of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association.
Pilgrimage gains Rowntree grant
The Pilgrimage for Peace and Economic Justice has been given a grant from the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust. The pilgrimage, which is modelled on the Olympic torch relay through Britain in 2012, is organised by Hexham Quakers and sets off from Iona, off the west coast of Scotland, on 19 May.
Speaking our truth
Some ninety Friends, from seventeen Local Meetings across central southern England, gathered on 27 April, in Bournemouth, to hear Geoffrey Durham speak.
Christian Aid Week highlights hunger
This year Christian Aid Week will be urging the British public to ‘bite back at hunger’. Christian Aid Week runs between 12-18 May and will highlight the problem of hunger in the world today. It will ask why, in a world where there is enough food for everyone, one...
Inauguration
Several hundred people travelled to Staffordshire from all over Britain, on Saturday 20 April, for the inauguration of the Quaker Service Memorial at the National Memorial Aboretum. A number of members of the Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU) and Friends Relief Service (FRS) were in attendance, together with family members and friends,...