The Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) has called for the UK to ‘act to reduce tensions and commit to nuclear disarmanent’ in the light of escalating conflict with Iran,…
The annual Refugee Week got off to a good start when the government announced that the UK will resettle 5,000 of the world’s most vulnerable refugees in the first year of a new…
Friends will be donning their wellies this weekend when, for what is thought to be the first year ever, there will be a Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) presence at Glastonbury…
A Quaker theatre company performed in front of an audience of sixty inmates at a prison in the south west of England this month.
Bath Friends were among those who supported the second Windrush Day event in Bath this month.
Friends in Forres, north Scotland, have pledged their support to a local mosque that was the victim of a hate attack. The Elgin Islamic Centre in Elgin was spray-painted with…
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has made a written submission to a parliamentary inquiry into UK policies towards autocratic states. The submission, co-written by Daniel Jakopovich,…
A Quaker conscientious objector (CO) from the second world war featured in a BBC Radio 4 news programme this month. Donald Saunders, of Colwyn Bay Meeting, spoke on Broadcasting…
Norwich Quakers hosted a fair this month in a bid to raise awareness of the climate crisis. Members from several climate change and peace organisations came together on 8 June for…
Exeter Quakers celebrated the three-month anniversary of their interfaith vigil which was set up in response to the shootings at two New Zealand mosques in March.
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