Mindfulness is part of the toolkit Quaker Social Action (QSA) deploys in its This Way Up (TWU) project, which aims to help people set achievable goals and develop coping…
The dramatic increase in the number of people relying on private rented accommodation was highlighted in an interest group on ethical landlords. The session, which was used to…
Friends were told, in the interest group on climate justice, that if we do nothing the resulting chaos would be devastating.
The work of the Central Nomination Committee’s (CNC) twenty-one members is perhaps the most important and least well-known and understood of all the major Yearly Meeting (YM)…
A challenging production by Journeymen Theatre left a hushed audience with food for thought on Saturday. Lynn and David Morris performed ‘Feeding the Darkness… Shining a Light…
The inspiring work of two nineteenth century Welsh pacifists was highlighted in a well-received public lecture at Yearly Meeting. Richard C Allen, reader in early modern history at…
Twenty-eight Friends squeezed together to hear Laura Shipler Chico of Quaker Peace & Social Witness’ (QPSW) overseas peacebuilding subcommittee describe the work taking place…
A dozen Friends met for the annual general meeting of the Quaker Disability Equality Group (QDEG) at a special interest group at Friends House on Sunday. QDEG’s annual report…
The session on ‘Eldership and oversight: Deepening and growth of Area Meetings’ began in a familiar pattern. Friends present were given five questions to discuss in groups of…
On Saturday afternoon Friends gathered to hear about the role of Talking Friends in helping people with impaired sight gain access to written Quaker material.
More than thirty Friends crammed into Drayton Room Four in Friends House on Saturday lunchtime for a Skype link with Sergei Grushko and Natasha Zhuravenkova in Friends House…
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