Quakers have been supporting asylum seekers affected by the Bibby Stockholm barge controversy.
Edinburgh Quakers provided a sanctuary for Fringe artists at this year’s August festival.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has urged the government to roll-out UN-backed schemes to support asylum seekers. The call came after the long-awaited United Nations High Commissioner…
Friends are organising vigils to witness against the government’s push for continuing gas and oil extraction. The Quaker Support for Climate Action (QS4CA) group will be holding…
Quakers are organising a peace pilgrimage to support witness against the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair.
Quakers are continuing to uphold the right for jurors to make decisions based on their conscience.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has called on the government to ‘stop dehumanising asylum seekers’. The government ‘must recognise that of God in everyone’.
Quaker Rainbow will mark its fiftieth anniversary in September. The group started as the Friends Homosexual Fellowship (FHF), which came into being at Woodbrooke in 1973.
Quakers were among a group of campaigners calling for the British Museum to rename its BP Lecture Hall.
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