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Friends of Color’s message to Quakers
The Friends of Color group has released an epistle calling on Quakers to heed its ‘Call to Action’ on the racial pandemic. ‘To our Friends in the wider Quaker world, we the Friends of Color, can’t breathe,’ said the Outgoing Epistle of the 2020 Virtual Pre-Gathering of Friends of Color...
Brighton Friend forms music fundraiser
A Quaker composer and patron of The Leaveners has started a fundraising music group after performing on her doorstep throughout the ‘Clap for our Carers’ appeals. The money raised via a Just Giving donations page will go towards helping musicians who are struggling due to the restrictions of the Covid-19...
Future local, not global, says XR book
Extinction Rebellion (XR) needs to ‘break out of the XR bubble’ and enable entire communities ‘to demand change’, says a new XR digital handbook that Quakers have been sharing.
Covid-19 in Africa
The Quaker Africa Interest Group (QAIG) charities group has said that the situation in Africa is highly changeable as countries grapple with the differing challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic. Member Lee Taylor said that a leaflet distributed with last week’s Friend indicating that schools in Zimbabwe would be opening...
QSA closes Homestore
Quaker Social Action (QSA) has permanently closed its east London furniture reuse project Homestore due in part to the difficulties of Covid-19.
Churches speak up for Hannah Brock Womack
The Methodist Church has joined the United Reform Church in expressing support for Quaker Hannah Brock Womack, who was blocked from fully being the representative of the Fourth Presidency Group of Churches Together in England (CTE) because she is married to a woman.
Huddersfield Quakers support torture victims
Huddersfield Friends have said they are ‘horrified’ that the death sentences of two Bahraini activists was upheld by Bahrain’s highest court despite international concern that they were tortured.
Lancaster Uni opens ‘Margaret Fell’ hall despite promoting military
Lancaster University has named one of its lecture theatres after Quaker Margaret Fell despite recently signing an Armed Forces Covenant, raising questions about its commitment to its Quaker connections.
Glenthorne hosts virtual welcome for refugees
Glenthorne Quaker Centre in Grasmere hosted a virtual Welcome Project in conjunction with Bradford Children’s Society and the Wordsworth Trust during the Covid-19 lockdown.
Quaker MP highlights Windrush ‘double injustice’
The Quaker and foreign shadow minister (Europe & Americas) Catherine West has said that Windrush Day on 22 June was ‘a stark reminder that many hundreds of people are still waiting for compensation, more than two years since the government first apologised for the appalling Windrush scandal that saw lives ruined...