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QARN speaks out on Home Office plan
A member of the Quaker Asylum Refugee Network (QARN) has spoken out about Home Office plans to end family reunification for asylum-seeking children in the event of a no-deal Brexit. According to reports, the government has privately briefed the UN refugee agency UNHCR and other NGOs that while ongoing cases...
Friends join XR ‘faith bridge’
Quakers are planning to take part in a ‘faith bridge’ in the next phase of Extinction Rebellion (XR) protests starting on 7 October. The Christian Climate Action group has urged people of faith to book the time off to join the ‘bridge’ which it said would be held with ‘worship and 2...
Friends protest DSEI
Hundreds of Quakers flocked to London this week to take part in the Roots of Resistance (RoR) mass protest against the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair at the ExCeL centre in London’s Docklands.
Quakers stand against prorogue of parliament
Friends made their voices heard against the hugely controversial decision to prorogue parliament made by prime minister Boris Johnson.
Ethical Landlords Association closes
The Quaker-founded Ethical Landlords Association (ELA) has dissolved due to ‘the difficulty of establishing a new body from scratch’.
Record-breaking animal rights march
Friends from Quaker Concern for Animals (QCA) were among the 12,000 vegan activists who took part in a record-breaking march last month demanding ‘an end to all animal oppression’ and blockading Trafalgar Square for almost an hour.
Quaker board game
Quaker and former Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) employee Jessica Metheringham has received enough pledges for her new board game Disarm the Base to be produced. With a minimum goal of £5,000, the game had to have 173 people pledging to pay £29 through Kickstarter for the game to be made.
Barack Obama ‘Hope’ artist donates work
The graphic artist Shepard Fairey who created the ‘Hope’ poster for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign has donated three signed prints to be auctioned at the 2019 Art the Arms Fair.
Cotteridge Meeting wins eco award
Cotteridge Meeting has become the first UK Quaker Meeting to be given a Gold Eco Church award. The prize from A Rocha recognises that Cotteridge Quakers have reduced the carbon footprint of their all-electric building ninety-eight per cent over fifteen years, while its CO2 emissions dropped from 26.4 tons in 2014 to 0.6...
QHA joins call for free showers for homeless
Quaker Homeless Action (QHA) has backed a campaign calling for free public showers to be installed in London to ‘enhance the wellbeing of those who sleep rough’. The petition was started on Change.org by Sarah Lamptey, who volunteers at a shelter. Katie Calvert, from QHA told the Friend it...