Barnt Green Quakers opened their Meeting house last month for an interfaith event to ease tensions after riots across the UK. Around fifty walkers – including Christians,…
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) staff met with Barclays Bank representatives last month. The meeting was about the bank’s financial relationships with companies supplying military…
Quaker Social Action (QSA) has called for ‘a kitchen-first approach’ for people within the asylum system.
Pardshaw Quakers are planning to develop the Pardshaw Quaker Centre (PQC) for ‘peace, retreats and affordable accommodation’.
Wells-next-the-Sea Meeting celebrated the 400th anniversary of George Fox’s birth last month with music and a Quaker Tapestry exhibition.
As racist, anti-migrant and Islamophobic violence erupted in parts of the UK, Quakers across the country reached out to local mosques to show solidarity, and to support those…
The Quaker Socialist Society (QSS) welcomed a ‘Hibakusha’ to Westminster Meeting House earlier this month. Seishi Morikawa, a campaigner against nuclear weapons, is a second…
Quakers supported the first Festival of Collective Liberation organised by Black Lives Matter UK last month. The event took place at Friends House in London, with Friends recruited…
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