As racist, anti-migrant and Islamophobic violence erupted in parts of the UK, Quakers across the country reached out to local mosques to show solidarity, and to support those…
The Quaker Socialist Society (QSS) welcomed a ‘Hibakusha’ to Westminster Meeting House earlier this month. Seishi Morikawa, a campaigner against nuclear weapons, is a second…
Quakers supported the first Festival of Collective Liberation organised by Black Lives Matter UK last month. The event took place at Friends House in London, with Friends recruited…
Quakers in Darlington heard key findings from the upcoming Alternative Security Review last month.
The UK must do more to tackle racism, Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has told a review by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD).
The Quaker Asylum and Refugee Network (QARN) has said that it welcomes measures to restore asylum rights made by the new Labour government.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) made a loss of £2 million in 2023, according to the financial statement released during Yearly Meeting (YM).
Quakers were among forty peace activists who set up a ten-day peace camp at the main gate of RAF Lakenheath to witness against the return of US nuclear weapons.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has said that it holds in the Light the five Just Stop Oil (JSO) protestors who were sentenced to four and five years in prison last week. The climate…
Lewes Meeting has won an award for a renovation project to its Grade 2-listed building.
Become a subscriber to enjoy unlimited access to our articles, dating back to 2009! Online subscribers get the Friend to their inbox each week, can comment on articles, and dive into our 1914-18 digital archive too!
Whether you are new to Quakerism or have been going to Meeting for years, you’ll find something here to inspire, inform and challenge you.
News | Views | Reviews
Written by and for Friends on the bench
Subscribe