The Peace Pledge Union (PPU)’s white poppy campaign launched last week with the backing of Mark Rylance.
Hampshire & Islands Area Meeting has decided that it will put forward to Meeting for Sufferings a concern that ecocide should become law and be made part of the Statute of…
Quakers are expressing dismay that a bill which would drastically limit the right to protest has passed through parliament.
Quakers have helped set up a new memorial fund to support young climate activists.
The leaders of both major parties – one, of course, now changed – seemed committed to tackling the climate crisis, but had different solutions to achieving this, Britain Yearly…
Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) has welcomed an intervention during a meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) raising the issue of military…
Friends in Stockton-on-Tees have rallied around a fellow Quaker who fears for her life if returned to Zimbabwe as part of the UK government’s policies for asylum seekers.
Two Quaker theatre practitioners have collaborated with anti-poverty campaigners on a play, to mark the United Nations International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.
The Dell House, run by Kevin and Elizabeth Rolph of Malvern Meeting, has been awarded the Malvern Hills Sustainable Tourism Green Mark for their commitment to environmental…
Scottish Friends have set up a new witness for peace to support worship taking place outside HM Naval Base Clyde (‘Faslane’). The base, which hosts four Trident submarines, has…
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