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QHA winter shelter in second year
Quaker Homeless Action (QHA) has reported a busy season for the second year of its London winter shelter. The centre in a church in Gospel Oak in north London opened a year ago in partnership with the Simon Community.
Friend’s homeless book turned into a play
A Quaker who wrote and self-published a book about homelessness has had his work turned into a play. Norwich Friend Robert Ashton’s Any Spare Change? has been adapted into a short play and performed at the Maddermarket Theatre in Norwich.
BYM on Holocaust Memorial Day
Marigold Bentley, head of peace programmes and faith relations for Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM), has said that it was especially important that Quakers participated in Holocaust Memorial Day this year ‘because it is not only seventy-five years since the liberation of Auschwitz, but also twenty-five years since the Srebrenica massacre...
Meeting for Sufferings: Friends consider gender and diversity
Friends came together on 1 February to reflect on the issue of diversity and inclusion following the second conference on the subject, which took place at Woodbrooke last month. Margaret Bryan, the Meeting for Sufferings’ (MfS) clerk, read a reflection from Sophie Bevan, who attended the Woodbrooke gathering as a MfS...
Meeting for Sufferings: Yearly Meeting Gathering 2020
This year’s theme for Yearly Meeting 2020 was announced as: ‘Listening, prophecy and reconciliation: allyship in a climate emergency.’
Meeting for Sufferings: MfS Annual Report is agreed
Friends agreed the MfS Annual Report 2019 to Yearly Meeting 2020 which was revised in the light of comments received before the Meeting.
Quaker speaks at Climate Assembly UK
A leading Quaker environmental expert spoke at the first weekend of Climate Assembly UK held in Birmingham last month.
Q&B trustee calls for gender pay gap action
A Quakers & Business (Q&B) Group trustee has called for employers to be more mindful of fair pay and work to correct the gender pay gap. In a guest blog called ‘A route to fair pay’ for The Equality Trust, Stuart Hill, Q&B membership secretary, pointed...
Central England Quakers ‘Pray24Brum’
Bull Street Meeting House hosted this year’s ‘Pray24Brum’ event in which seekers from different Christian traditions come together to pray.
155 students at Exeter Meeting
One hundred and fifty-five school pupils visited Exeter Meeting House to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. The six school groups of students aged between eight and fifteen came to the Meeting as part of a Religious Education (RE) trip organised by the RE advisor for the Standing Advisory Council on Religious...