16th August 2024

Black Lives Matter festival at Friends House

by Rebecca Hardy

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…

QUNO director  steps down
9th August 2024

QUNO director steps down

by Rebecca Hardy
9th August 2024

Friends hear Alternative Security Review findings

by Rebecca Hardy

Quakers in Darlington heard key findings from the upcoming Alternative Security Review last month.

9th August 2024

BYM submits evidence to UN on UK racism

by Rebecca Hardy

The UK must do more to tackle racism, Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has told a review by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD).

9th August 2024

Quakers welcome measures to restore asylum rights

by Rebecca Hardy

The Quaker Asylum and Refugee Network (QARN) has said that it welcomes measures to restore asylum rights made by the new Labour government.

9th August 2024

BYM publishes financial accounts

by Rebecca Hardy

Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) made a loss of £2 million in 2023, according to the financial statement released during Yearly Meeting (YM).

Quaker-run store wins ‘Bookshop of the Year’
2nd August 2024

Quaker-run store wins ‘Bookshop of the Year’

by Rebecca Hardy
2nd August 2024

Quakers witness at nuclear base

by Rebecca Hardy

Quakers were among forty peace activists who set up a ten-day peace camp at the main gate of RAF Lakenheath to witness against the return of US nuclear weapons.

2nd August 2024

BYM upholds JSO activists

by Rebecca Hardy

Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has said that it holds in the Light the five Just Stop Oil (JSO) protestors who were sentenced to four and five years in prison last week. The climate…

2nd August 2024

Lewes Meeting wins award

by Rebecca Hardy

Lewes Meeting has won an award for a renovation project to its Grade 2-listed building. 

2nd August 2024

BYM welcomes ICJ ruling on Israel

by Rebecca Hardy

Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) welcomed the UN’s International Court of Justice (ICJ)’s ruling last month that the Israeli presence in all occupied Palestinian territory,…

Blue plaque unveiled for Loveday Hambly
26th July 2024

Blue plaque unveiled for Loveday Hambly

by Rebecca Hardy