The director of Quaker Social Action (QSA) has said that the organisation owes ‘a debt of gratitude’ to Quaker Homeless Action (QHA) for their merger later this year.
The representative body for Quakers in Britain joined faith bodies and human rights campaigners in urging the government to end dangerous Channel crossings by introducing safe and…
Almost one hundred people signed up for a ‘Re-imagining Society Sustainably’ online conference last month to consider how to rebuild society after the pandemic.
A Herefordshire Friend has written a book about the history of Quakers in Leominster.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has joined a campaign calling for a temporary increase in Gift Aid to help charities struggling with a sizeable drop in fundraising income due to the…
Quakers have been organising action to support the Build Back Better (BBB) campaign that was launched in April to galvanise a green and just recovery from the pandemic. Rebecca…
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has been consulting staff over a wide range of cost-cutting measures as it announced the Covid-19 pandemic ‘has had a significant effect on its…
The Quaker and MP Ruth Cadbury has written to the chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak to call on the government to ‘fix the gaps’ in both the Coronavirus Job Retention…
The Roots of Resistance (RoR) group that mobilised hundreds of Friends to protest against last year’s Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair has changed…
The Peace Pledge Union (PPU) has strongly criticised British ministers after Boris Johnson failed to mention the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki when announcing plans…
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