More than 250,000 young adult carers require urgent government support, Quaker Social Action (QSA) has said.
Banbury and Evesham Quakers are focusing on reparations this month, as part of their annual public talk at the historic Adderbury Meeting House.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has joined 139 other organisations in writing to Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour Party, to support a ‘world-leading’ pledge to end new oil and…
A guidebook detailing George Fox’s famous 1652 route across Lancashire, Yorkshire and Cumbria was celebrated this month at Swarthmore Meeting House.
Every school in Britain should have peer mediators, Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has said.
A new Quaker-backed charity to support people at Wandsworth Prison was publicly launched last month.
Friends celebrated the news last week that, after twenty-seven years, and a decade-long campaign, the BP sponsorship deal with the British Museum ended. Campaigners including…
Friends are being asked to take photos of the front of funeral directors’ premises, if clear funeral costs are not displayed.
Quakers have helped raise funds to build a village health centre in Butta, in eastern Uganda.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has said that it will continue to work with others to protect and promote human rights, despite the ‘severe blow’ of the Public Order Bill, which…
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