Leiston Meeting House is hosting a temporary banking hub as the last remaining bank in the town closed last week.
A Quaker from Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Area Meeting (AM) gave ministry at a multifaith service on Good Friday.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has joined over twenty organisations in calling on the government to scrap a law it says unfairly targets Gypsy and Traveller communities.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has joined calls to world leaders to uphold the UN General Assembly (UNGA)’s resolution that Israel must end its unlawful presence in Palestine.
Selly Oak Quakers have started a Young Adult Meeting after attracting some new attenders in the same age range.
An event at Roundhay Meeting House is shining the spotlight on the upcoming Christian Aid Week, at a time when international aid budgets have been slashed.
North London Quakers have launched a community cafe to help vulnerable adults gain employment skills. The fortnightly initiative, based in the eighteenth-century Winchmore Hill…
The Quaker-founded organisation the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FoR) has sent messages of solidarity and support to Catholic sister agencies following Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s…
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) put out a statement in support of trans and non-binary Friends after the Supreme Court’s ruling last week.
Welsh Friends celebrated Earth Day this week at a gathering at Cardiff Meeting House. The event on 22 April was one of many around the UK marking Earth Day’s fifty-fifth…
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