1st November 2019

Bruce Kent awarded peace prize

by Rebecca Hardy

Quakers expressed delight at the news that veteran peace campaigner Bruce Kent has been awarded the 2019 International Peace Bureau (IPB) Sean MacBride Peace Prize.

1st November 2019

Pre-election warning from anti-frackers

by Rebecca Hardy

Nearly 100 anti-fracking groups and campaigners have signed a letter to Boris Johnson calling for fracking to be banned. Friends who have long campaigned against the practice of…

1st November 2019

Quaker author at Writers Rebel

by Rebecca Hardy

A Quaker author joined forty writers including Simon Schama, Susie Orbach and Ali Smith at a two-hour literary event in support of Extinction Rebellion (XR). Lucy-Anne Holmes, from…

1st November 2019

Quaker Lesbian Group considers equality

by Rebecca Hardy

Twelve members of the Quaker Lesbian Group (QLG) met to discuss the Quaker testimony of equality last month for their second annual weekend gathering.

1st November 2019

Friends hold Mental Health Forum

by Rebecca Hardy

Seventy Friends who gathered for the Quaker Mental Health Forum last month have shared a minute for Friends.

25th October 2019

Friends in call to end hunger by 2030

by Rebecca Hardy

Quakers are among a coalition of national and local charities, anti-poverty organisations and faith groups who have urged the country’s leaders to act now to end hunger in the UK.

25th October 2019

Quaker for Christian World Communions chairperson

by Rebecca Hardy

Gretchen Castle, the general secretary of Friends Worldwide Committee for Consultation (FWCC), has been appointed the chairperson for the Conference of Secretaries of Christian…

25th October 2019

Blue plaque at Woodbrooke for Gandhi

by Rebecca Hardy

A blue plaque has been unveiled at Woodbrooke to mark the 150th birthday anniversary of Mohandas Gandhi – and to honour his speech there exactly eighty-eight years ago.

25th October 2019

Huddersfield hosts peace lecture with David Gee

by Rebecca Hardy

Forty people came to hear Quaker David Gee deliver Huddersfield Meeting’s annual peace lecture this month on ‘Rethinking Security’. Robin Bowles, from Huddersfield Meeting,…

18th October 2019

Scottish Friends welcome smacking ban

by Rebecca Hardy

Quakers in Scotland are celebrating the news that Scotland has become the first country in the UK to make it a criminal offence for parents to smack their children. Eighty-four…

18th October 2019

Kenyan Quaker speaks at Friends House

by Rebecca Hardy

A Quaker from Kenya spoke at Friends House last week about the different traditions of Quakerism. John Muhanji, director of the Africa Ministries Office of Friends United Meeting…