The stigma experienced by Ebola sufferers is the subject of a new film by Purple Field Productions (PFP). The film, which follows on from Ebola is Real, released last year, hopes…
More than 120 Yorkshire Quakers met at The Retreat last month, prompting staff at the York mental health hospital to hunt for extra chairs. Quakers in Yorkshire meet every quarter,…
The main Meeting house at Birmingham Bull Street will benefit from a £20,000 lighting upgrade. The project will be carried out over the summer.
Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, despite a vigorous student protest, has announced that it will not divest from funds involved in the extraction of fossil fuels. The…
QARN, the Quaker Asylum and Refugee Network, is calling on Friends to help it challenge the government over new charges for renewing discretionary leave to remain status for asylum…
Sessions at Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) will this year be relayed via an audiovisual link to an overflow room in Friends House. The initiative is one of a number that have been…
Paul Parker, recording clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting, has written to the prime minister to express Quakers’ concern at the plight of migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean.
The problems of identity and stereotyping were among those addressed at a Quaker event in Huddersfield on 19 April when forty young people met to share and discuss the issues they…
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