Quakers are continuing to set up warm spaces to help the cost-of-living and energy crisis.
The risk of suicide is two-to-four times higher for young veterans than it is for regular civilians, according to new research commissioned by the Ministry of Defence.
Central England Quakers (CEQ) are supporting a joint fuel poverty project to create a network of ‘energy champions’.
A Quaker received a six-month suspended sentence last month after climbing onto a gantry on the M25 as part of a Just Stop Oil (JSO) protest.
A Quaker community that was created to help Friends in lockdown marked its 1,001st online worship this month.
An archive of handwritten letters and printed material compiled by a leading Quaker abolitionist is going to auction next month.
There is a pressing need to defend our human rights this year, Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has said, as more anti-democratic measures are in the pipeline. Writing on the Quakers…
A Manchester Friend is walking 500 miles in the next twelve months to raise funds for a lawsuit to protect Malaysian people from environmental exploitation.
Tim Gee, general secretary of Friends Worldwide Committee for Consultation (FWCC), introduced ‘Ubuntu’, the 2024 World Plenary theme, to London Quakers earlier this month.
Quaker Concern for European Affairs (QCEA) has said that its latest study tour ‘proved to be a major success with more than twenty participants from all over the world’.
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