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‘Don’t shake hands’
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has advised Meetings not to shake hands as the coronavirus continues to spread.
Teach crisis in school, activists tell MPs
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has joined education charities, unions and environmental NGOs in signing up to ‘Teach the Future’, a youth-led campaign to put the climate crisis at the heart of the education system. As fifty youth climate strikers took the message to MPs on 26 February at a parliamentary campaign...
DSEI activist’s charges withdrawn amid questions over arrest
The Peace Pledge Union (PPU) has said that the Metropolitan Police and the Crown Prosecution Service face ‘urgent questions’ after the last-minute withdrawal of charges against a pacifist activist, five months after proceedings began.
Call for church action on poverty
Quakers were among nearly 500 church leaders and elders who have called for UK churches to ensure that ‘the deepening crisis of UK poverty is at the centre of national attention’. Nine Friends from Selly Oak, Newcastle, Sittingbourne, Inverness, Beeston, Dorchester and Stocksfield Local Meetings signed the open letter calling on...
JRF’s first photography exhibition launched
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has launched its first public photography exhibition showing people living on the breadline in Britain. Picture Britain: Our People, Our Poverty, which opened in Borough Market in London on 20 February, features twenty portraits by award-winning photographer Jillian Edelstein after she asked participants: ‘What is the...
Funeral directors sign QSA pledge
Funeral directors across the UK have committed to providing transparent pricing by signing a pledge organised by Quaker Social Action (QSA). The Fair Funerals pledge was relaunched by QSA amid ongoing concerns at the scale of price rises and the behaviour of some funeral directors, with the Competition and Markets...
Collateral Damage poppies at Peace Museum
Two panels of the thousands of handmade poppies that made up the Collateral Damage project have been donated to The Peace Museum. Linda Murgatroyd, from the Quaker Arts Network, told the Friend: ‘The remainder have been distributed for use at protests against the arms trade or war, and in a...
Quaker Universalist gathering
Thirty people gathered at Friends House, London, this month to consider the topic ‘Language, Truth and Religion’.
Council of Faith visits at Loughborough Meeting
Loughborough Quakers have started an interfaith initiative for their local Council of Faiths designed to bring members closer together.
Pontefract Friends host climate talk
Pontefract Meeting hosted a talk about climate change this month in a bid to raise awareness of the crisis. Andrew Rollinson, a renewable energy specialist, spoke on 9 February about the various pointers that indicate we are in a climate emergency.