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Home Office set to deport transplant patient to Nigeria
Doctors, clergy and parliamentarians have called upon home secretary Theresa May to stop the removal of kidney-transplant patient Roseline Akhalu to Nigeria. Roseline, aged forty-nine, who lives in Headingley, Leeds, came to the UK in September 2004 on a student visa, having beaten fierce competition to win a Ford Foundation...
Circles broadcast appeal postponed
The charity appeal for Circles of Support and Accountability, to have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Sunday 4 November, has been postponed. The appeal was to have been given by the distinguished barrister and human rights campaigner Helena Kennedy. It was postponed because of a ‘shared concern that, given...
Friends support ‘fair deal’ for John Lewis cleaners
Quakers from across London are working with London Citizens to call for fairer treatment for cleaners who work in the John Lewis Partnership. Friends met in mid-October at Westminster Meeting House to discuss a plan of action in support of the cleaners. They have highlighted Saturday 17 November as an â€...
Socially useful banking
We need to rediscover the social usefulness of banks. This was one of the messages heard at the Occupy sponsored talk and discussion entitled Socially Useful Banking on Monday 29 October in Friends House, London.
EU complicit
QPSW has joined with twenty-two other non-governmental organisations across Europe to launch a report, entitled Trading Away Peace: How Europe helps sustain illegal Israeli settlements.
Junior Yearly Meeting 2013
The location and dates of Junior Yearly Meeting (JYM) for 2013 have been announced. The gathering is to be held at the Pioneer Centre near Kidderminster from 6 to 10 April.
Farewells at Woodbrooke
Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham will be without three popular figures this time next year.
Quakers march against cuts
Quakers from all corners of Britain took part in the anti-cuts marches held on Saturday 20 October. Friends met at Westminster Meeting House in St Martins Lane, in central London, before proceeding to the march. Police estimated 100,000 marched through London to a rally in Hyde Park, although the TUC put...
‘Talking Friends’ goes digital
‘Talking Friends’ after many years of producing recordings in cassette format, has gone digital to improve its service to their subscribers. Talking Friends (TF) is a registered charity, run by Quakers, to provide blind/visually impaired Friends and attenders in Britain Yearly Meeting with access to Quaker periodicals and...
Quakers urged to support petition
Friends have been urged to support a popular on-line petition that asks the government to review the cuts that have been made to the benefits and services provided to disabled people.