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.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) welcomed the UN’s International Court of Justice (ICJ)’s ruling last month that the Israeli presence in all occupied Palestinian territory,…
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