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Campaign to save trees
A campaign including Huddersfield Quakers featured on ITV news last week after supporters gathered to protest against council plans to widen one of West Yorkshire’s most congested routes.
Quakers urge rethink on Overseas Operations Bill
Friends have expressed dismay that a controversial armed forces bill passed its second reading in parliament last week.
Friends ‘connect dots’
Friends gathered virtually to discuss interconnected European social issues highlighted by the Covid-19 crisis in an ‘online conversation’ set up by Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA). Andrew Lane, from QCEA, said that Friends came together for the event on 22 September to ‘discern the bigger picture when it comes to...
Controversial aid for US Quaker school
A US Quaker school was among a group of private institutions that have been recently criticised for accepting federal aid for businesses struggling during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Poems for Peace
Quaker Roots, the network of Friends building a radical response to the Defence and Security International (DSEI) arms fair, held a poetry workshop last week in preparation for their 2021 peace witness.
Ready for Quaker Week
Gretchen Castle, general secretary of Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) – World Office, has said that Quakers have much to celebrate despite ‘the depths of grief’, as Friends get ready for Quaker Week 2020 and World Quaker Day (WQD).
Winchmore Hill Friend asks for IT
A Quaker councillor from Winchmore Hill Meeting is working with a social enterprise to drum up old but still usable laptops to cover the digital divide exposed by Covid-19.
Quaker building survives US fires
The grounds of a Quaker Meeting house in California sustained significant damage to water lines after firefighters battled one of the wildfires sweeping parts of the US.
BYM backs coalition to halt cycle of crime
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) is supporting a coalition including police and crime commissioners that is committed to preventing young people being pulled into a cycle of crime and crisis. Led by Revolving Doors Agency, the coalition says a smarter criminal justice system would intervene earlier to prevent ‘a revolving door...
International Day of Peace is marked
Over ten Quaker groups joined around 170 organisations in signing an International Day of Peace statement calling for the international community to ‘mainstream peace in the response to Covid-19’.