A very full agenda, which covered subjects as diverse as ‘speaking out’ in Britain to peace work in East Africa, was dealt with at Meeting for Sufferings held at Friends…
A paper addressing concerns raised by Cambridgeshire Area Meeting about use of the phrase ‘Quakers in Britain’ was prepared by the Recording Clerk’s Office for Meeting for…
At the meeting of Britain Yearly Meeting trustees in June it was noted that a new Social Justice Subcommittee had been established within the structure of Quaker Peace & Social…
Friends were informed of proposals for a revision of the relationship between Ackworth School in Yorkshire and Meeting for Sufferings.
The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN).
Quakers have welcomed the decision by the Scottish government to ban fracking. Friends in 2013 decided nationally to stop investing in companies that extracted fossil fuels.
Friends who witnessed against the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair in London last month and who were subsequently arrested have been named.
Quakers were observers at the United Nations in New York in late September as a historic treaty, which aims to rid the world of nuclear weapons, gained fifty nation states’…
The rules governing religious education teaching are not ‘fit for purpose’, a new report states.
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