The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has embarked on an ambitious £512,000 project to highlight the impact of public spending cuts and government policy changes on poor people…
The closing date for Quaker nominations for the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize is 1 May. In 1947 the Prize was awarded to Quakers worldwide for the work they had done, particularly…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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