Five Quakers were present in different capacities at the World Council of Churches (WCC) Central Committee meeting in Trondheim, Norway from 22-28 June. The Friends were able to…
Friends from Pickering, North Yorkshire, have written to a regional newspaper to voice their dismay at a recent decision regarding fracking.
Britain Yearly Meeting and the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham have announced the launch of a joint development initiative.
Huddersfield and Wooldale Meeting Houses were among the places of worship that opened in the wake of the murder of Jo Cox, MP, on 16 June. The Meeting houses opened that evening to…
Breckenbrough, the Quaker special school in North Yorkshire, has announced that headmaster Geoff Brookes will leave in summer 2017.
Fifty Friends gathered in York on 11 June to discuss the value and effectiveness of Meeting for Worship.
The programme at the 2016 Irish Famine Summer School and National Famine Conference includes a session on Friends’ contribution to famine relief.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has terminated a contract with security services firm G4S. G4S had provided maintenance for the access control system at Friends House for more than…
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