12th February 2021

Meeting for Sufferings: Pandemic reflections

by Joseph Jones & Harry Albright

Last June, MfS reflected on the pandemic and how Friends’ communities were responding. At this meeting, MfS held an open worship session to share what has been learned.…

‘Stansted Fifteen’ charges quashed
5th February 2021

‘Stansted Fifteen’ charges quashed

by Rebecca Hardy
5th February 2021

Hannah Brock Womack joins JRCT

by Rebecca Hardy

Quaker Hannah Brock Womack has been recruited as one of six new appointments at Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT), in a push for a more diverse staff team as it expands its…

5th February 2021

Friends join push for fair tax

by Rebecca Hardy

Quakers have welcomed a campaign launched by Church Action for Tax Justice to push for more fairness in taxation.

5th February 2021

Katherine Barclay marriage certificate for sale

by Rebecca Hardy

The marriage certificate of Quaker Katherine Barclay and Daniel Bell is being auctioned on the website eBay, with bids starting at £195.

5th February 2021

The Penn Club to close

by Rebecca Hardy

The historic Quaker-founded Penn Club is closing just months after celebrations for its centenary birthday were cancelled. In a statement on its website, the Penn Club board wrote…

29th January 2021

Quakers lobby on controversial bill

by Rebecca Hardy

Quaker lobbying was praised as the controversial Overseas Operations Bill was debated in the House of Commons last week. The bill passed through the Commons in November despite…

29th January 2021

London Friends explore debt and impoverishment

by Rebecca Hardy

The narrative that ‘all economic debt is bad’ is damaging to society and should be challenged, said Mark Thomas, founder of ‘The 99% Organisation’, at a Build Back Better…

29th January 2021

Consider seeds of violence, says AFSC

by Rebecca Hardy

The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) has called on the US to examine seeds of violence there, following the events leading up to Joe Biden’s inauguration when white…

Gold Medal for Jocelyn Bell Burnell
29th January 2021

Gold Medal for Jocelyn Bell Burnell

by Rebecca Hardy
29th January 2021

Quaker gets MBE for sponsored walks

by Rebecca Hardy

Newbury Friend Ruth Saunders has been awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours List. The Quaker centenarian received the award for her sponsored walk for Thames Valley Air Ambulance…

29th January 2021

BYM and Africa Section Friends meet

by Rebecca Hardy

Sixty-six Friends from Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) and from YMs across Africa came together online to ‘visit’ with each other last month. Job Bikokwa, executive secretary of…