Friends are supporting a Tottenham Quaker and climate activist who is facing deportation.
A Quaker has won the Little Rebel Book Award for the second time in three years.
Dunblane Meeting was invited to take part in a Sterling University event remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki this month.
Five Quakers are raising funds to set up a ‘hospitality house’ for vulnerable people living in the ‘jungle’ camps in Calais.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) welcomed news of a ceasefire in Gaza this month. As the Friend went to press this was looking fragile, but in a statement on 14 October, BYM said:…
The Library of the Society of Friends is welcoming young people to explore Quaker history this week.
Winchester and Basingstoke Meetings have installed ‘all genders’ signs on their existing unisex toilets. Southampton Friends have agreed to do the same.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has warned that new government plans to tighten protest laws even further are ‘not only unnecessary but dangerous’.
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