A Bath Friend has been elected as a local Liberal Democrat councillor after returning to politics three years ago to help stop the rise of the Conservative Party in Bath.
The Quaker-associated Penn Club is gearing up for its centenary celebrations next year with commissioned artwork and plans to reach out to Friends for stories of their visits to…
Friends took part in the Peace Pledge Union (PPU) annual conference this month to explore what solidarity means in practice and how to adapt national or international campaigns to…
A Hereford Friend is asking for Quakers to take part in a research project exploring ‘what it means to be or become Quaker’.
Quaker Social Action (QSA) has backed a campaign to stop threatening debt collection letters that was debated in the UK parliament Commons Treasury committee last month.
Quaker bodies are among 108 organisations that have signed a declaration called: ‘Save the European Peace Project.’
The Quaker-founded Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has outlined how the government can ‘call time on the injustice of in-work poverty’ following recent proposals to tackle the…
Quakers gathered at Mount Street Meeting House in Manchester last week to discuss the benefits of Land Value Tax (LVT). Speakers on 1 June came from the Coalition for Economic…
Friends at Yearly Meeting were keen to mark the centenary of the groundbreaking photograph of the total solar eclipse by Quaker Arthur Eddington which confirmed Albert Einstein’s…
European and Middle East Young Friends (EMEYF) has released its epistle from the 2019 Spring Gathering that took place in Peski, Russia last month.
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