After a period of worship to clear minds, the Meeting turned to what clerk Margaret Bryan had referred to as ‘the principal item for consideration’. In October 2019 MfS…
After an update on the agenda for Yearly Meeting in session (30 July to 8 August 2022), and a minute from Manchester and Warrington AM calling for increased consideration of the…
Huddersfield Quakers have alerted Friends to the fact that a leading military company is involved in the UK 2021 Census. The contract for processing census forms has been put in…
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has said that it is ‘disappointed’ in the UK government’s race report that was released last week. It said that BYM had called ‘for action to…
The Quaker group Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) has highlighted a new platform aimed at putting women in the forefront of peacemaking.
Quakers in Scotland are publicising a guide to help Friends engage with candidates for the Scottish parliamentary elections in May. The twenty-seven-page guide, put together by the…
Quakers joined people all over the country to mark a national day of reflection on 23 March, with a nationwide minute of silence at noon followed by bells tolling. Paul Parker,…
Bristol Quakers held their annual peace lecture last week on the theme of ‘Can war be abolished? Britain’s role in working for world peace.’
The Labour MP Preet Kaur Gill will feature in the second of the ‘Quaker Question Time’ events, which will take place online in June. Friends will be able to put questions to…
The Quaker Tapestry Museum has raised over two-thirds of the estimated £250,000 needed to restore its roof. The funding has been sourced from local Quaker funds, grants and…
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