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Ninety-one-year-old Quaker in XR arrest
Friends are upholding a ninety-one-year-old Quaker who was arrested and charged during the Extinction Rebellion (XR) blockade at Dover Docks last month.
QSA ‘Step by Step’ raises £10,000
Quaker Social Action (QSA) has completed its ‘Step by Step’ seventy-eight-mile Capital Ring walk around London, raising over £10,000 for its work on poverty. Forty QSA staff members and supporters took part in the walk which started one year ago and was spilt into ten four- to six-hour routes, each covering...
Friends produce LVT leaflet
The Quaker Land Value Tax (LVT) Group has designed an information sheet to go out to all local Meetings in November as part of the clerks’ mailing.
BYM on International Day of Peace
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) marked the International Day of Peace last month by joining with other peacebuilding organisations around the world to call on governments to move from commitment to action on peace.
Bentham Friends host Heritage Open Day exhibition
More than 100 people attended an exhibition at Bentham Meeting House last month to learn more about an influential nineteenth century Quaker family who founded a local mill. The display on 14 September was part of an open afternoon to celebrate Heritage Open Days and included photographs of the family members and...
Norwich Quaker writes book on homelessness
A Norwich Friend has spent three months interviewing homeless people and charity workers for a book exploring the causes of homelessness.
Young Friends protest for climate justice
Young Friends took to the streets this week to take part in the global climate strikes. With some students walking out of school, youth activists joined demonstrations across the UK on 20 and 27 September in a week of action calling on political leaders to take urgent action to avert climate breakdown....
1,300 come to Art the Arms Fair
More than 1,300 people attended Art the Arms Fair, the award-winning partly-Quaker-founded arts project which challenged the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) fair this month.
Quaker calls for Midlands AVP group
A Friend from Evesham Meeting has approached Southern Marches Area Meeting with the intention of setting up an Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) group.
QHA shortlisted for award
Quaker Homeless Action (QHA) volunteers have been shortlisted for a Mayor of London Volunteering Award for a mobile library they run for homeless people.