4th June 2021

EU climate policy ‘not coherent’, says QCEA

by Rebecca Hardy

A new report by Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) has said the European Union climate policy is ‘not always coherent’ with the bloc’s stance on peace and human…

4th June 2021

Florence Meeting finds new home

by Rebecca Hardy

The group of Friends who formed a Florence Meeting two years ago have relocated to an English cemetery with Quaker connections. Kirsten Hills, who grew up as an attender in…

Newport Friends Journey to COP 26
28th May 2021

Newport Friends Journey to COP 26

by Rebecca Hardy
28th May 2021

Police apologise to Quaker after unlawful arrest

by Rebecca Hardy

A Quaker arrested for protesting during the January lockdown has received an apology from the police, as well as substantial damages.

28th May 2021

Paul Parker marks ten years with BYM

by Rebecca Hardy

Quaker Paul Parker has written about his first decade as recording clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) in an article on the Quakers in Britain website. Recalling ten Quaker…

28th May 2021

Quaker continues witness to feminism

by Rebecca Hardy

Quaker author Lucy-Anne Holmes has interviewed fifty-one women from all over the world for a book about sex. In Women on Top of the World – published in the US this month,…

28th May 2021

Bookings to open for Quaker Gathering

by Rebecca Hardy

Bookings will soon open for the 2021 Yearly Meeting Gathering (YMG), which is themed ‘For our comfort and discomfort: living equality and truth in a time of crisis’. Online…

28th May 2021

Friends discuss being an interfaith church

by Rebecca Hardy

Quakers discussed ‘What it means to be a non-credal church’ last month, as the theme of a webinar run by the Quaker Committee for Christian and Interfaith Relations (QCCIR).…

21st May 2021

Friends successfully lobby for nuclear ban

by Rebecca Hardy

North Wales Friends have said they are ‘overjoyed’ that Bangor City Council has become the first Welsh council to support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons…

21st May 2021

Concerns over Quaker labour practices

by Rebecca Hardy

A Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) staff member has written to the Friend highlighting ‘a communication gap between Quakers and the people they employ’.

Kendal Tapestry Museum reopens
21st May 2021

Kendal Tapestry Museum reopens

by Rebecca Hardy
21st May 2021

Quaker ‘Question Time’ in Devon

by Rebecca Hardy

Exeter Quakers hosted a Quaker ‘Question Time’ this month, featuring Exeter MP Ben Bradshaw and East Devon MP Simon Jupp.