Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) marked the first-year anniversary of its Reparations Working Group (RWG) this month. The group was set up in October 2023 to take forward the Quaker…
The Quaker-founded Leighton Park School is a finalist in the Independent Schools Association (ISA) Awards 2024. The Future Readiness Award aims to celebrate best practice in…
A group of Quakers marked the International Day of Peace by creating a Meeting of Friends of Ukraine.
A new initiative launched by ‘Discovering Quakers’ is proving more successful than they dared hope, said Friends.
Taunton Quakers have urged local Quakers to write to their MPs highlighting the links between militarism and climate injustice.
The UK government’s defence review ignores ‘vital non-military solutions for a safer UK and world’, Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) warned last week.
Quaker Asylum Refugee Network (QARN) has highlighted a new survey that shows refugee women are subjected to voyeurism and sexual harassment by male staff at hotels.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) joined twenty-five charities calling for the UK to review its trade relations with Israel. The letter to Jonathan Reynolds MP, business and trade…
The Peace Museum featured on The One Show last month as part of an episode about the Bradford City of Culture 2025.
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