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Quaker bags radio slot
The Quaker writer Jennifer Kavanagh has been invited to deliver a regular slot on radio offering a Quaker perspective on news. The member of Westminster Meeting reviewed the papers for Inspirit, the early Sunday morning programme on BBC Radio London, on 11 August. She told the Friend: ‘Apparently, they’d never...
Friends explore ‘Earth’s Fragile Abundance’
The Quaker Arts Network (QAN) held workshops for creative exploration of ‘Earth’s Fragile Abundance’ last month, including outdoor sketching, creative writing, dance and textiles. The workshops, held at Swarthmoor Meeting House on 20 July, were the first of a series of events in conjunction with the Seeking Routes art exhibition...
Ada Salter commemorated
The Quaker Socialist Society (QSS) celebrated the birthday of Quaker social reformer and environmentalist Ada Salter last month, who was born in 1866.
Meeting pulls MP talk amid threats of violence
Brighton Meeting House was the third venue in less than a week to cancel an event with MP Chris Williamson after they were warned that there may be violence. The Derby North MP was suspended from the Labour Party in February for claiming that Labour had been ‘too apologetic’ in...
BYM on IICSA
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has begun a new investigation into child protection in religious organisations and settings.
‘Human chain’ for Peterloo massacre
Around 150 people showed the power of silent action with a ‘human chain’ around the wall of the Central Manchester Meeting House to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo massacre. According to Manchester Friends, part of the wall surrounding the Meeting house was standing in 1819 when the massacre happened, during...
Protestors removed from Pride
Quakers supported a group of LGBTQ+ people who were removed from a Pride event in Surrey this month for protesting against the event’s sponsors BAE Systems. The attenders carrying anti-BAE banners said they were thrown out of the event in Woking Park on 10 August. However, the organisers are reported...
Funeral debt on BBC
A woman who was supported by Quaker Social Action’s (QSA’s) ‘Down to Earth’ programme spoke on a BBC news programme this month about her struggle with funeral debt following her brother’s death.
Quakers at the Fringe
The Quaker singer-songwriter Majk Stokes performed new material at the Edinburgh Meeting House, when, for its thirty-first year, the building became Venue 40 for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Quaker-founded NGO to close in Nicaragua
A US Quaker-founded NGO has closed after almost fifty years of working in Nicaragua due to the country’s desperate problems under president Daniel Ortega.