The Canterbury Commitment Group presented their interim report. The group told Meeting for Sufferings that there had been widespread approval of the decision to publicly disinvest…
Frederick Sanger, the distinguished biochemist, and Grigor McClelland, a founding director of the Manchester Business School, have died.
Many Quakers in Britain warmly welcomed the recent overwhelming support of Scottish MPs for the new Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Bill.
An anthology of poetry by Quakers, the first published in Britain since 1896, has just been released. A speaking silence: Quaker poets of today, edited by RV Bailey and Stevie…
Church leaders have called for the armed forces recruitment age to be raised to eighteen as a ‘fitting memorial’ to the thousands of young soldiers killed in the first world war.
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…
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