An external audit of how Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) performs on equity, diversity and inclusion has revealed that there is room for improvement.
Quaker Ann Limb, from Milton Keynes Meeting, has been awarded a damehood in the jubilee birthday honours’ list.
Quakers will make practical reparations for the transatlantic slave trade, colonialism and economic exploitation.
The World Council of Churches (WCC) has faced renewed calls to distance itself from any members which support the invasion of Ukraine.
A Quaker MP has highlighted the issue of rising health inequality. Catherine West, Labour MP for Hornsey and Wood Green, said: ‘Over the past decade, we’ve seen the health gap…
North Scotland Area Meeting has donated £500 towards a Quaker-built school on a Kenyan island.
The Quaker and Anglican peace campaigner Paul Oestreicher has been awarded an OBE in the jubilee birthday honours. The ninety-year-old priest and vice-president of Campaign for…
Over 100 Friends attended a session about the Quaker study centre in Birmingham, Woodbrooke’s future.
The Groups Fair was a chance for Friends to meet members of various Quaker groups. Members of the Black, Brown and People of Colour Fellowship spoke of the group’s ability to…
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