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QHA wins Mayor’s Award – and then has new van stolen
Quaker Homeless Action (QHA) volunteers who run a mobile library for homeless people have won a Mayor of London Volunteering Award – around a week before their new van was stolen.
Bruce Kent awarded peace prize
Quakers expressed delight at the news that veteran peace campaigner Bruce Kent has been awarded the 2019 International Peace Bureau (IPB) Sean MacBride Peace Prize.
Pre-election warning from anti-frackers
Nearly 100 anti-fracking groups and campaigners have signed a letter to Boris Johnson calling for fracking to be banned. Friends who have long campaigned against the practice of drilling for shale gas supported the letter, whose signatories included Extinction Rebellion, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and Frack Free United.
Quaker author at Writers Rebel
A Quaker author joined forty writers including Simon Schama, Susie Orbach and Ali Smith at a two-hour literary event in support of Extinction Rebellion (XR). Lucy-Anne Holmes, from Welwyn Garden City Meeting and author of Don’t Hold My Head Down, delivered her spoken word piece How do you rise?...
Quaker Lesbian Group considers equality
Twelve members of the Quaker Lesbian Group (QLG) met to discuss the Quaker testimony of equality last month for their second annual weekend gathering.
Friends hold Mental Health Forum
Seventy Friends who gathered for the Quaker Mental Health Forum last month have shared a minute for Friends.
Quakers still worship despite ‘extraordinary’ XR ‘ban’
Friends still gathered in Trafalgar Square for Meeting for Worship (MfW) despite what the Quaker organisation Turning the Tide (TTT) described as the ‘extraordinary’ decision to ‘ban’ Extinction Rebellion (XR) protests anywhere in London.
Friends in call to end hunger by 2030
Quakers are among a coalition of national and local charities, anti-poverty organisations and faith groups who have urged the country’s leaders to act now to end hunger in the UK.
Quaker for Christian World Communions chairperson
Gretchen Castle, the general secretary of Friends Worldwide Committee for Consultation (FWCC), has been appointed the chairperson for the Conference of Secretaries of Christian World Communions, making her the first woman to fill the role.
Blue plaque at Woodbrooke for Gandhi
A blue plaque has been unveiled at Woodbrooke to mark the 150th birthday anniversary of Mohandas Gandhi – and to honour his speech there exactly eighty-eight years ago.