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‘Big Bang’ fair criticised
The executive director of Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR) has criticised the recent four-day ‘Big Bang’ science and engineering fair in London for its weak ‘ethical perspective’. The Fair was launched in 2009 and is the largest event of its kind in the UK. It is designed to attract young...
The Last Runaway
The latest novel by award-winning writer Tracy Chevalier is set in a Quaker settlement in Ohio in the mid-1850s. Tracy Chevalier grew up attending Quaker summer camps and her sister and stepmother joined the Religious Society of Friends. ‘I never did’, she explained in a recent interview with...
Stourbridge gets grant
Stourbridge Meeting House, a Grade II listed building, has been given £2,500 from the National Churches Trust Partnership Grants scheme towards the repair of their stonework and roof.
Tapestry moved to temporary home
The Quaker Tapestry, currently housed in the historic Meeting house in Kendal, has had to move because of urgent repairs to the building. The move comes in the wake of the wettest year on record in Cumbria.
Welby quotes Quakers
Justin Welby, the new archbishop of Canterbury, made several quotes from Quaker faith & practice in his address to the recent ‘Faith in Conflict’ conference at Coventry.
Consumers acting on tax avoidance
Millions of Britons are using consumer power to boycott companies seen to be avoiding their fair share of UK tax, new research reveals. A ComRes survey about public perceptions around tax avoidance, commissioned by Christian Aid, found that a third (thirty-four per cent) of Britons say they are currently...
New chair for Barrow Cadbury Trust
The Barrow Cadbury Trust has announced that Helen Cadbury is to become its next chair. Helen, the Trust’s seventh chair since 1920, takes over from Ruth Cadbury, who has chaired the Trust since 2006.
Groups fair at BYM
Britain Yearly Meeting have made an appeal for Friends to notify them if they wish to participate in the Groups Fair, or hold a special interest group, this year at Yearly Meeting.
Easter protest at Aldermaston
A campaign to draw attention to the nuclear bombs that are researched and built at Aldermaston has just been launched. A mass demonstration is planned for Easter Monday, 1 April, between 12 noon and 2pm, to protest against Britain’s Trident nuclear weapons system.
Quakers active in Kenyan elections
Quakers from both Kenya and Britain helped to ensure that the Kenyan election, held on Monday 4 March, had a reduced level of violence. Post-election violence in Kenya in 2007 left 1,200 people dead and hundreds of thousands displaced. Though violence again flared on election day earlier this week, with at least...