Quaker Rainbow will mark its fiftieth anniversary in September. The group started as the Friends Homosexual Fellowship (FHF), which came into being at Woodbrooke in 1973.
Quakers were among a group of campaigners calling for the British Museum to rename its BP Lecture Hall.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has joined over 100 churches to launch a new partnership to create local and global change through gifts in wills.
London Quakers are hoping to hold another climate justice gathering in Friends House, after the success of this year’s event.
A Quaker Social Action (QSA) volunteer has been shortlisted for a national award for his work for a QSA project.
Quakers joined the annual ‘Independence from America Day’ last month at RAF Menwith Hill, where there have been protests for twenty years.
Nine London Friends joined the city’s Pride march to spread the Quaker message of inclusion, despite the fact that London Quakers as a group did not join. Friend Abigail Maxwell…
Paul Parker, recording clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM), has signed a ‘Charity So Straight’ pledge to support the rights of trans, non-binary, and gender diverse communities.
The Quaker-led French group Stop Fuelling War (SFW) has said that last month’s riots in France have made the need to rethink security more pressing than ever.
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