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Penn Club houses NHS staff
The Quaker Penn Club, the historic guest house based in Bloomsbury in London, has opened its doors to house frontline workers during the coronavirus crisis.
Quaker GP videos
A Wallingford Friend who is leading the Oxfordshire End of Life Care response to the Covid-19 pandemic has put together a series of videos for frail and at risk people during the crisis.
Friends consider ‘hybrid Meetings’
Quakers have been exploring how best to move forward with Meeting for Worship (MfW) in future months. The increased discernment follows the government’s announcement on 7 June that from 15 June places of worship could open for individual prayer in England. This does not include communal worship.
Meeting for Sufferings: Exceptional circumstances
Meeting for Sufferings this month was held via the videoconferencing platform Zoom. In her calling letter to this most unusual gathering, the clerk Margaret Bryan noted that ‘many of you will know more about Zoom than you ever imagined necessary’. Too true. But advance induction sessions had been set up...
Meeting for Sufferings: Trustees report
‘A lot has being going on’ noted Caroline Nursey, clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) trustees, since she last spoke to Sufferings representatives, in February. But trustees needed guidance as they looked forward, she said. First, though, BYM treasurer Linda Batten gave a financial review of 2019, which had ended much...
Meeting for Sufferings: Dates - MfS and a virtual Yearly Meeting
Dates for meetings don’t often prompt existential questions but that was the case as MfS considered when it would meet again. The initial proposal was that there be fewer Meetings than usual.
AFSC condemns police violence around George Floyd’s death
The Quaker organisation American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) has condemned the police violence surrounding the death of George Floyd, branding it ‘the consequence of a racist system that disproportionately targets people of colour for violence, imprisonment, and premature death’.
Friends raise £3,000 for Christian Aid Week
Members of Cotteridge Meeting in Birmingham have said they were ‘amazed’ when their week of alternative fundraising activity raised thousands of pounds in support of Christian Aid Week.
Quaker testimony to mark ICO Day
The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FoR) released a filmed testimony from a Quaker world war two pacifist to commemorate International Conscientious Objectors’ (CO) Day.
BYM joins call for a green recovery
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) joined more than thirty other organisations recently in calling for a green and just recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.