The Stansted Fifteen protestors charged with stopping a deportation charter flight under a terror offence have launched an appeal against the verdict.
Quakers have voiced fierce criticism of the latest army recruitment campaign targeting young people. The campaign features world war one-style posters with images of modern young…
Central Bristol Friends are expanding their Meeting house in order to accommodate more homeless people at its overnight shelter.
A member of Herstmonceux Meeting in East Sussex has written a book called Corporate Citizenship: The role of companies as citizens of the modern world.
One hundred and ninety volunteers helped out at the Quaker Open Christmas last month organised by Quaker Homeless Action (QHA).
Quaker Molly Scott Cato, the Green Party MEP for South West England, has described the government’s decision to ditch payments for householders installing solar panels as a…
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has urged Friends to help ‘shine a light’ in 2019 on what it calls ‘the broken immigration system’.
A Quaker psychotherapist and author gave a talk at Friends House in London last month.
A Lincolnshire Friend is planning to launch a web-based platform for young Quakers. The ‘YouthQuakeNow’ (YQN) project hopes to inspire young Friends to meet and connect.
Friends from Kingston and Wandsworth Area Meeting have committed to recording their annual carbon dioxide emissions data in response to a concern about climate change. The action…
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