Sales of white poppies in 2018 are the highest they have ever been since their launch in 1933 – despite a barrage of criticism in the media.
Seventy friends gathered at the ‘Mental Health and Young People’ day in Birmingham, organised by the Quaker Mental Health Forum. The day at the Priory Rooms on 3 November…
The Quaker Service Memorial Trust (QSMT) has released a DVD containing interviews with world war two members of the Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU) and Friends Relief Service (FRS).…
Quakers are upholding Friends’ decisions to take part in a campaign of civil disobedience as part of their witness against climate change. Several Friends took part in the…
Eight hundred children will be descending on Friends House in London on 9 November to take part in activities to mark the centenary of the Armistice. The day, which is part of the…
Quaker Social Action (QSA) has announced that its ‘Step By Step’ walk around London’s ‘Capital Ring’ has raised more than £4,000 so far for people struggling with poverty.
Bristol West MP Thangam Debbonaire has spoken out at a Quaker Socialist Society event about her Quaker heritage and its effect on her politics. At Bristol Central Meeting House on…
A Quaker Social Action (QSA) housing project for young carers has been shortlisted for a national award organised by the Guardian newspaper. The Tower Hamlets-based ‘‘Move On…
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has joined a call for a change in the law to allow newly arrived asylum seekers the right to work in the UK after six months. In a letter published in…
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