Meeting for Sufferings (MfS) has encouraged Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) trustees to give up BYM’s investment in fossil fuels. The recommendation reflected a groundswell…
The decision made in April 2011 to boycott goods from Israeli settlements in the occupied territories continues to prompt challenging questions for Friends in Britain, Meeting for…
‘We find ourselves utterly at odds with the priorities in our society which deny the full human potential of millions of people in this country. That denial diminishes us…
Probation Service Meeting for Sufferings (MfS) has requested advice from Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW) following receipt of a minute that set out a concern over…
The re-introduction of a quota to Meetings was rejected by Friends at Meetings for Sufferings (MfS). Britain Yearly Meeting trustees had concluded that a re-introduction of…
A Yearly Energy Survey (YES) is being developed to provide a ‘simpler and more robust’ tool to monitor energy use.
The five-year vision for Quakers in Britain is being developed and will be set out in a new long-term framework document for 2015-20.
Artistic Friends have a dream – that one day they will be able to enjoy seeing displays of art in Friends House.
The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust has announced significant changes to its grant-making priorities for the next five to ten years. The funding for projects in the…
The 2014 Swarthmore Lecture, it has just been announced, is to be given by the Quaker author and academic Ben Pink Dandelion and will explore the theme of ‘transformation’.
Quaker author and peace campaigner Diana Francis is to be one of the speakers at a conference on militarisation to be held at Friends House on 19 October.
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