The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) is supporting a new prize for in-depth journalism. ‘The Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils’ will be awarded for the first…
On Tuesday 1 July some 400 Bootham School students, aged between eleven and eighteen, took part in a ‘whole school service day’. Inspired and organised by history teacher and…
Quaker Social Action (QSA) has gained the Living Wage Foundation’s certification. This means that every member of the east London charity’s staff, including contracted workers,…
Three members of Westminster Meeting, London, featured in the recent birthday honours list. Michael Bartlet, lately parliamentary liaison secretary for the Religious Society of…
Sixteen representatives of the Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) took part in a residential meeting at The Moyallon Centre in Northern Ireland last week. The centre…
Quakers in Britain strongly disagree with the conclusion of a report published this week that says the UK should retain its nuclear deterrent. The report by the independent…
Regular worship among Friends in the Crewe and Nantwich area has moved back to Crewe for the first time since 1922. Meetings for Worship take place at the Coppenhall…
A new film that highlights a growing concern among young people about the promotion of military activities in schools is to be launched at Friends House on the evening of 26…
Yearly Meeting Gathering (YMG) 2014 is oversubscribed. There are 2,018 people booked for the event at Bath, including day visitors. This compares with 1,662 at Canterbury, in…
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