The role and ‘right holding’ of Area Meetings has been a concern for some time. The afternoon session of Meeting for Sufferings (MfS), on Saturday 1 October, was…
There were 87,120 people in detention on 16 September, of whom 95.1 per cent were male. The number is less than 2,000 places short of the ‘usable operational capacity’ of the…
There has been a mixed reaction from equality campaigners. Equalities minister Lynne Featherstone said that a consultation on the subject – delayed from this year – will…
The $2bn alleged banking fraud by a trader at UBS, an investment bank, has exposed ethical failure at both the corporate and the individual level, a member of Quakers and Business…
British Quakers are to have a formal presence at the conferences of the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat parties.
Tony Stoller, editor of The Friends Quarterly, is the new chair of trustees for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) and Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust (JRHT). A former radio…
The Gordon Barclay Vietnam Fund (GBVF) has been laid down. Ratcliffe and Barking Monthly Meeting established the fund in 1968 when the Vietnam war was at its height…
Trustees of the Themba Trust UK met recently and made the decision to dissolve the UK charity. Themba in South Africa will be ten years old in February next year and…
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