Quaker Housing Trust (QHT) has said that a fall in donations is limiting their ability to meet the demand for their funding support.
A Yorkshire Friend has highlighted the ‘uncertain future’ facing the historic Farfield Meeting House and other old Quaker buildings.
Quaker Asylum and Refugee Network (QARN) has highlighted a new report suggesting that unreliable age tests on asylum seekers may leave children ‘frightened and unsafe’.
Friends welcomed the news that the House of Lords has inflicted a number of defeats on a bill intended to crack down on protest.
A Quaker-backed new charity to support people at Wandsworth Prison was publicly launched last month.
Friends have spoken out about the 200 children recently reported to have gone missing from hotels run by the Home Office.
Quakers called for the government to engage with the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) last month.
Quakers are continuing to set up warm spaces to help the cost-of-living and energy crisis.
The risk of suicide is two-to-four times higher for young veterans than it is for regular civilians, according to new research commissioned by the Ministry of Defence.
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