Juliet Prager, the deputy recording clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) since 2013, will be leaving her post at the end of May.
Woobrooke has said that it will no longer be offering bed and breakfast as it is not financially viable. A statement from the centre says: ‘While the Woodbrooke Centre has…
Quakers are being urged to write to their MPs about the new Health and Care Bill.
The Quaker-founded mental health institute The Retreat, York, has agreed a formal contract on the sale of its forty-acre Heslington Road site to developers the PJ Livesey Group.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has announced that a new Local Development Worker (LDW) for the East Midlands region will start in spring. Sarah Shaw will serve Leicester, Notts and…
Rising energy prices will ‘devastate’ the poorest families, the Quaker-founded Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has said.
A Quaker Insulate Britain activist had his charges of contempt of court quashed last week when a judge decided that he had not broken the government’s M25 injunction last autumn.
A Yorkshire Quaker organised a local event last month to mark the anniversary of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).
Quakers in the US have welcomed a new ‘Black Quaker Lives Matter’ film festival this month, celebrating the lives and contributions of people of colour. The American Friends…
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