22nd April 2022

Swastikas spray-painted outside US Meeting house

by Rebecca Hardy

A Friends’ Meeting in the United States has reported two swastikas found spray-painted outside a Quaker cemetery in New Jersey.

22nd April 2022

Friend describes power of silence for BBC Mother’s Day service

by Rebecca Hardy

A Welsh Quaker mother of two young children gave a moving reflection for the BBC on Sul y Mamau, Mother’s Day, focusing on the power of silence to help us listen to ourselves,…

22nd April 2022

Quaker peace work in Spanish civil war

by Rebecca Hardy

Quaker peace work in the Spanish Civil War is explored in a new book by the author Maggie Brookes-Butt. The novel Acts of Love and War draws on research from Friends House Library…

22nd April 2022

Quakers dismayed by energy strategy

by Rebecca Hardy

Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has said it is dismayed by the government’s British Energy Security Strategy published earlier this month.

15th April 2022

Edinburgh Meeting seeks charities for festival

by Rebecca Hardy

Edinburgh Friends are looking for charities to host theatre performances at their venue this summer during the Edinburgh Festival. The shift away from profit-making theatre groups…

15th April 2022

Former recording clerk talks on hosting refugees

by Rebecca Hardy

Gillian Ashmore, a former recording clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM), spoke on radio last month about her experience of hosting refugees.

15th April 2022

Quaker Mount School hosts army recruiter

by Rebecca Hardy

The Mount School in York, which is a Quaker Recognised Body, has hosted a military recruiter as part of its Careers Week.

15th April 2022

Friends urged to ‘keep up pressure’ on policing bill

by Rebecca Hardy

Friends are being urged to continue lobbying against the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which has been going back and forth between the House of Commons and House of…

15th April 2022

New BYM department

by Rebecca Hardy

Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has set up a new department called Quaker Church Affairs.

Manchester urged to ditch fossil-fuel pensions
8th April 2022

Manchester urged to ditch fossil-fuel pensions

by Rebecca Hardy
8th April 2022

Estonia Friends raise funds for more AVP

by Rebecca Hardy

The Tallinn Friends Group have said they want to expand the Alternative to Violence Project (AVP) seminars that they already run in Estonia to local Russians.