Sunday Worship on BBC Radio 4 on 15 November will be a special service recorded in the chapel of HMP Long Lartin, in Worcestershire, to mark the beginning of Prisons Week.
Lancaster Quakers have marked Living Wage Week (1-7 November) by writing to local businesses. Friends wrote of their interest in engaging businesses in conversation about the…
A two-day event, Health Through Peace, is taking place at Friends House on 13-14 November.
The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT) has issued a statement concerning its recent participation in a judicial review claim brought by the advocacy organisation Cage. The…
The idea that Christian, Muslim and Judaic extremism play equally important roles in destabilising Middle Eastern societies was explored at a recent conference.
The Blue Idol Meeting House in West Sussex has been taken off Historic England’s list of vulnerable historic buildings. The seventeenth century Meeting house had been on the…
Milton Keynes Friends recently held a public preview of the new film The Divide. The film looks at the growing gap between rich and poor, and its impact on society in Britain and…
A musical adaptation of Ian Serraillier’s much-loved children’s novel The Silver Sword has toured Britain. The novel tells the story of four Polish children’s struggles in…
Some sixty Friends from twenty Area Meetings gathered at Bull Street Meeting House in Birmingham on 24 October for the ‘Road Maps to Equality’ conference. This was the second…
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