Marigold Bentley, head of peace programmes and faith relations for Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM), has said that it was especially important that Quakers participated in Holocaust…
Friends came together on 1 February to reflect on the issue of diversity and inclusion following the second conference on the subject, which took place at Woodbrooke last month.…
Friends agreed the MfS Annual Report 2019 to Yearly Meeting 2020 which was revised in the light of comments received before the Meeting.
A leading Quaker environmental expert spoke at the first weekend of Climate Assembly UK held in Birmingham last month.
A Quakers & Business (Q&B) Group trustee has called for employers to be more mindful of fair pay and work to correct the gender pay gap. In a guest blog called ‘A route…
One hundred and fifty-five school pupils visited Exeter Meeting House to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. The six school groups of students aged between eight and fifteen came to the…
Two Friends from Oxford Meeting appeared in The Guardian newspaper last month talking about their experiences of sharing a home. In the interview for the ‘How we live together’…
A ‘repair café’ hosted by Salisbury Meeting has saved over 200 kilograms of waste from landfill, according to local Friends.
Opening her first Meeting for Sufferings (MfS) as clerk, Margaret Bryan welcomed members and introduced the new assistant clerk, Robert Card.
Josh Habgood-Coote, one of two Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) representatives to the Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) General Assembly, presented the organisation’s…
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) and Ireland Yearly Meeting (IYM) have reaffirmed their shared friendship and unity, as the United Kingdom takes the historic move to leaves the…
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