Quakers in Britain are to launch The White Feather Diaries, an online storytelling project to mark the centenary of the first world war. The real-time story follows five…
The garden at Friends House is due to be reshaped next spring to give better access for wheelchair users. Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) trustees approved the plans for major works…
The number of children whose parents are in prison is one of the issues being highlighted by Prisons Week, which runs from 17 to 23 November. The concern has been raised by…
Good Energy has taken over as the new energy supplier to Friends House from 1 November. The decision to switch was made by Friends House Hospitality Board. In 2009 there was…
Climate change is on the international agenda next week in Warsaw when negotiators meet for a new round of talks under the UN Climate Convention. The Polish capital will…
Young soldiers recruited from disadvantaged backgrounds are much more likely to return from war with mental health problems than other troops, says a new report published by human…
Nicola Sleap has been appointed as researcher to a new PhD research project into twentieth century Quaker business history. The project is the first PhD to be funded by the…
Paul Parker, recording clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting was among the twelve senior representatives from churches and Christian organisations in the United Kingdom who, on 24…
On Remembrance Sunday, 10 November, Bradford Meeting and other concerned groups are organising two events as the start of their commemoration of the onset of the first world war.
Nothing but trouble has come from market fundamentalism, professor Mary Mellor told Newcastle Friends at a public meeting of their Economic Justice Group on 24 October. ‘This…
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