The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has issued a new report, Counting the cost of UK poverty, as part of its ‘Solve UK poverty’ campaign.
The Centre for Postgraduate Quaker Studies (CPQS) at Woodbrooke in Birmingham has been renamed the Centre for Research in Quaker Studies (CRQS).
Christian Aid is highlighting the effect of climate change in worsening the natural disasters being experienced in Texas and parts of Asia.
Quakers in Britain are continuing to monitor the crisis around North and South Korea.
Members of Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) protested outside Northrop Grumman’s office in central London on 30 August in opposition to Northrop’s arms sales to Saudi Arabia…
The Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) has published a new brochure designed to raise awareness of the important work of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).…
Quaker Meeting Houses (including Horsham Meeting House, right) will be among the churches and chapels open on Saturday 9 September for the 2017 Sussex Ride and Stride.
The Peace Pledge Union (PPU), an affiliate of the War Resisters’ International (WRI), an umbrella body of pacifist and anti-militarist groups around the world, is one of the…
Quakers are joining a day of worship, prayer and nonviolent resistance to the Defence and Security Equipment International arms fair in East London, the largest arms fair in the…
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