A Quaker Open University (OU) manager is driving access to education in prison by developing a ‘virtual learning environment’ so students can access their materials in a…
Quaker Hannah Larn shared her experience as an ecumenical accompanier in the West Bank and Palestine with the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine/Israel (EAPPI) at…
The Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) met in Lincoln recently, where members explored the nature of their peace witness and reported both positive and negative experiences.
York Quakers held a day conference at Friargate Meeting House on 6 October as a contribution to the ‘York Remembers’ season, marking the end of the war in 1918.
Four members of Quaker Concern for Animals (QCA) joined a monthly event in Trafalgar Square, London entitled ‘Awakening Compassion’.
The Quaker Arts Network (QAN) has updated its website, inspired by a successful QAN Day that attracted people from the US, the Netherlands and Scotland.
Chris Alton, the Quaker artist and 2018 Swarthmore lecturer, was interviewed on the ‘web platform’ Young Artists in Conversation this month.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) trustees asked Meeting for Sufferings for advice and discernment regarding a proposal to explicitly exclude investments in companies profiting from the…
It has been ‘a long journey’ for Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) on the issue of sustainability, Anne Ullathorne, clerk of Meeting for Sufferings (MfS), said on 6 October at…
The pilot programme of the Vibrancy in Meetings project will come to an end in December 2019, Meeting for Sufferings (MfS) heard on 6 October.
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