Woodbrooke has announced that Emily Provance will give the 2025 Swarthmore Lecture. The lecture will focus on the meaning of Quaker community, and how community is integral to…
A group of Central Manchester Friends organised ‘a welcoming epilogue’ for the Green Party, whose conference was held in the city last week.
Quakers in Scotland have highlighted the plight of dozens of students in Uganda who have been violently arrested for peacefully marching against the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline…
Twenty-five children, thirty-eight adults and eight dogs enjoyed a week of Quaker camping last month.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has welcomed the UK government’s suspension of some arms exports to Israel, but has called for a full ban.
A Norwich Friend has called on the new Labour government to reconsider signing the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
A Woodbrooke course highlighting the campaign to make ecocide an international crime starts this weekend. The two online sessions will be run by Hilary Saunders who has been…
Chichester Friends hosted a public walking tour of local Quaker landmarks to celebrate Fox400.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has highlighted a United Nations report saying the UK should curb racist hate speech by politicians and public figures.
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