Friends welcomed the news that the House of Lords has inflicted a number of defeats on a bill intended to crack down on protest.
A Quaker-backed new charity to support people at Wandsworth Prison was publicly launched last month.
Friends have spoken out about the 200 children recently reported to have gone missing from hotels run by the Home Office.
Quakers called for the government to engage with the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) last month.
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.
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