Recording clerk Paul Parker and Yearly Meeting clerk Deborah Rowlands gave an informative report on their recent trip to visit Quaker communities in the USA (see the Friend, 2…
Charlotte Seymour-Smith, clerk of Quaker Peace & Social Witness Central Committee (QPSWCC), spoke to its annual report to Meeting for Sufferings. QPSW is already looking…
Meeting for Sufferings returned to questions relating to the Yearly Meeting 2015 minute ‘Living out our faith (call for equality)’ that it had not had time to consider in…
Minutes from four Area Meetings (AMs) were brought to Sufferings for consideration. Brighouse West Yorkshire AM raised the Ammerdown Invitation and Friends’ responses to it. The…
The new website for Turning the Tide is now live. The bright, user-friendly website contains information and resources on the work of Turning the Tide. Some tools are available…
A one day conference on the state of the banking system was held at Friends House, London, on Saturday 1 October.
Several scenes in the new eight-part ITV/Netflix conspiracy thriller Paranoid have been filmed in Frandley Meeting House in Cheshire.
A commemoration of the abolition of slavery in the past and a recognition of slavery in the world today was part of France Yearly Meeting held at the Centre des Naudières near…
Quakers in Scotland and ForcesWatch presented a petition to the Scottish Parliament on Thursday 15 September calling for greater scrutiny, guidance and consultation on the visits…
More than forty Meeting houses opened to the public during Heritage Open Days, from 8-11 September.
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