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…
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…
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.
Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham will be without three popular figures this time next year.
‘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…
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…
Italian arms company Finmeccanica has ended its sponsorship arrangement with the National Gallery in London a year before it was due to end.
Occupy London Stock Exchange began on 15 October 2011 and set up camp at St Paul’s Cathedral the following day. It followed Occupy movements in many cities worldwide.
Quakers are being urged to take part in ‘Forty Days of Prayer for the Future of Friends’, which has been announced by Friends United Meeting (FUM). FUM has announced a…
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