12th August 2022

Quakers call for nuclear disarmament

by Rebecca Hardy

Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has signed a joint letter calling on world leaders to phase out nuclear weapons.

5th August 2022

BYM joins calls to end closure of Gaza

by Rebecca Hardy

Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has joined calls for the UK government to take urgent action to end the blockade of Gaza.

Friends mark Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day
5th August 2022

Friends mark Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day

by Rebecca Hardy
5th August 2022

Play to mark Hiroshima wins award

by Rebecca Hardy

The Quaker actor and playwright Michael Mears has won an award for his play based on the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

5th August 2022

Stratford Quakers house Ukrainian refugees

by Rebecca Hardy

Quakers in Stratford-upon-Avon have welcomed a Ukrainian family to the warden’s flat at their Meeting house. The accommodation became vacant in April following the death of the…

5th August 2022

Woodbrooke talks of ‘period of significant change’

by Rebecca Hardy

The Quaker study centre Woodbrooke has issued a statement signalling ‘a period of significant change’. Describing how ‘the pandemic has changed Woodbrooke irrevocably’, the…

Friends support airshow protest
29th July 2022

Friends support airshow protest

by Rebecca Hardy
29th July 2022

Cotteridge Friends highlight food poverty

by Rebecca Hardy

Cotteridge Quakers have highlighted the ‘very urgent needs’ of foodbanks, saying that at their service there is ‘more food going out than coming in’.

29th July 2022

Quaker peace education pack wins major prize

by Rebecca Hardy

A peace education teaching pack, designed and produced by Britain Yearly Meeting, has been chosen by teachers for a major award.

29th July 2022

Candidates for prime minister judged on defence and climate

by Rebecca Hardy

As the Conservative leadership race heats up, Quakers have been sharing assessments on how the final two candidates – Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss – stand on defence and climate…

29th July 2022

Friends resist reopening of Campsfield House

by Rebecca Hardy

Quakers in Oxfordshire are campaigning against the reopening of a notorious immigration detention centre.

Peace campaigners mark forty years of Faslane
22nd July 2022

Peace campaigners mark forty years of Faslane

by Rebecca Hardy