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TTT Kenya celebrates new centre
Turning the Tide (TTT) Kenya has reached what Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) describes as a ‘key milestone’ in setting up a new organisation to promote a movement of nonviolence in the country.
CO film by Huddersfield Friend
A film by a Huddersfield Friend, inspired by her pacifist ancestors, was shown at two short film festivals last month. Unknown Ravens by filmmaker Sema Basharan tells the story of one rural family in the second world war who ‘refused to make anyone their enemy’.
Spotlight on BAE and Covid-19
Local Quakers have spoken out about speculation that the arms manufacturer BAE Systems in Cumbria may have contributed towards the town of Barrow-in-Furness having had one of the UK’s highest Covid-19 rates. Around 1,500 people continued to work for BAE Systems after lockdown, prompting 500 people to sign a petition asking...
UK banks invest ‘billions’ in nukes
A survey of UK pension funds and banks released this week reveals that billions of pounds are invested in companies that are producing nuclear weapons. According to the report Banks, Pensions and Nuclear Weapons: Investing in Change, there is patchy awareness among some finance executives of their organisation’s record...
Taunton XR Quakers ‘build back better’
Three Quaker Extinction Rebellion (XR) campaigners from Taunton Meeting are pitching their energies into a ‘Build Back Better’ campaign which launched via an online meeting last week.
Hannah Brock Womack on radio
Quaker Hannah Brock Womack, whose appointment as a Churches Together in England (CTE) president was blocked because she is in a same-sex marriage, spoke on the BBC radio programme Beyond Belief last week.
Quaker school pupil raises £1k for NHS
A Year 7 student from the Quaker Leighton Park School has raised over £1,000 for the NHS, cycling the distance from Reading to Milan on his stationary bike.
Friends House closed until at least 31 July
Britain Yearly Meeting has said that Quaker headquarters Friends House and Swarthmoor Hall will not be open until after 31 July.
‘Only one in three contributors a woman’
The Quaker Socialist Society (QSS) has called for a renewal of the language used to talk about social responsibility in the process of revising Quaker faith & practice. The group has sent a statement to the Book of Discipline Revision Committee after it found that in the section on social...
Spike in applications for hardship grants
The Quaker charity The Pollard and Dickson Trust has said it received ‘a definite spike’ in the number of Friends applying for financial help in the first six weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic.