30th August 2024

The Peace Museum reopens in new site

by Rebecca Hardy

The Peace Museum in Bradford has reopened at a new site, four years after it closed at the start of the Covid lockdown. Its new location in Salts Mill, in Saltaire, includes a new…

30th August 2024

Restore the right to protest, says BYM

by Rebecca Hardy

Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) is calling on the government to restore the right to protest and freedom of speech. In a letter to Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, Paul Parker,…

Blue plaque for Alton Meeting
30th August 2024

Blue plaque for Alton Meeting

by Rebecca Hardy
30th August 2024

Quakers help ease tension after riots

by Rebecca Hardy

Barnt Green Quakers opened their Meeting house last month for an interfaith event to ease tensions after riots across the UK. Around fifty walkers – including Christians,…

Friends hold commemorative vigil
23rd August 2024

Friends hold commemorative vigil

by Rebecca Hardy
23rd August 2024

BYM in ‘quiet diplomacy’ with Barclays Bank

by Rebecca Hardy

Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) staff met with Barclays Bank representatives last month. The meeting was about the bank’s financial relationships with companies supplying military…

23rd August 2024

QSA calls for kitchens for asylum seekers

by Rebecca Hardy

Quaker Social Action (QSA) has called for ‘a kitchen-first approach’ for people within the asylum system. 

23rd August 2024

Fox’s sermons celebrated

by Rebecca Hardy

Pardshaw Quakers are planning to develop the Pardshaw Quaker Centre (PQC) for ‘peace, retreats and affordable accommodation’. 

23rd August 2024

Norfolk Friends mark Fox400

by Rebecca Hardy

Wells-next-the-Sea Meeting celebrated the 400th anniversary of George Fox’s birth last month with music and a Quaker Tapestry exhibition. 

Friends urge National Trust to ditch Barclays
16th August 2024

Friends urge National Trust to ditch Barclays

by Rebecca Hardy
16th August 2024

Quakers support migrants as riots spread

by Rebecca Hardy

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…

16th August 2024

Westminster Friends mark Hiroshima Day

by Rebecca Hardy

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…