Meeting for Sufferings welcomed an update from Claire Cooper, parliamentary engagement officer for Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM), on the status of Circles of Support and…
The government is advising MPs to say they associate the military with ‘positive values’ such as ‘loyalty, resilience, courage and teamwork’, according to Britain Yearly…
Quaker actor Sheila Hancock delivered an impassioned indictment of the use of indefinite immigration detention in the UK when she joined Jeremy Irons, Zoe Wanamaker, Christopher…
Rwanda Yearly Meeting has thanked Friends throughout the world for supporting its appeal for funding to help install thirty-five lightning rods required by a government decree.
JordanS Quaker Centre held a workshop on Prisons and Justice last month, with contributions from past prisoners and a prison governor.
The Quaker artist Jill Gibbon was among the artists included in an exhibition made up of work withdrawn from the Design Museum’s ‘Hope to Nope’ exhibition.
Pakefield Friends in Suffolk performed a play-reading of a historic public meeting discussing the subject of ‘Votes for Women’.
‘We have a huge agenda today,’ Anne Ullathorne, clerk of Meeting for Sufferings (MfS), observed on Saturday 6 October in Friends House, London. The Young People’s…
Friends enthusiastically welcomed a proposal to create four places reserved for Young Adult Friends (YAFs), aged under thirty-five, at Meeting for Sufferings for the remainder of…
The Young People’s Participation Day was held in parallel with Meeting for Sufferings on Saturday 6 October. Young Friends, aged between fourteen and eighteen, joined Sufferings…
‘All divisions among people are made by people.’ This comment from an Area Meeting was highlighted by Edwina Peart, inclusion and diversity coordinator for Britain Yearly…
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