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Quaker peace campaigner wins compensation
A Quaker peace campaigner who claimed she was deliberately run over by a car has been awarded £15,000 in compensation after a long-standing fight for justice.
Mass lobby urges action on climate
More than 100 Quakers from England, Scotland and Wales came to Westminster last week to take part in ‘The Time is Now’, a mass lobby of parliament urging MPs to take action on the climate crisis. Faith representatives, including a former archbishop and a young Quaker, addressed the gathering, saying that...
Global Peace Index: Quaker House launch
The average level of ‘global peacefulness’ improved for the first time in five years, according to the 2019 Global Peace Index launched at Quaker House in Brussels last month. However, according to the index, now in its thirteenth year, the world continues to be less peaceful than a decade ago.
Letter to Foreign Office about Iran
The Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) has called for the UK to ‘act to reduce tensions and commit to nuclear disarmanent’ in the light of escalating conflict with Iran, particularly since attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman.
Quakers mark Refugee Week
The annual Refugee Week got off to a good start when the government announced that the UK will resettle 5,000 of the world’s most vulnerable refugees in the first year of a new scheme. As Quakers prepared themselves for a lively week of action, sanctuary campaigners congratulated each other after...
BYM and Woodbrooke work together for changes
Trustees of Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) and Woodbrooke, the Quaker study centre in Birmingham, have agreed to work together to radically change the way the two organisations support Friends in Britain.
Quakers go to Glastonbury
Friends will be donning their wellies this weekend when, for what is thought to be the first year ever, there will be a Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) presence at Glastonbury Festival.
Standing ovation for Quaker prison theatre
A Quaker theatre company performed in front of an audience of sixty inmates at a prison in the south west of England this month.
Bath Friends mark Windrush Day
Bath Friends were among those who supported the second Windrush Day event in Bath this month.
Friends hail Birmingham climate emergency declaration
Central England Quakers are celebrating the news that Birmingham City Council has declared a ‘climate emergency’ after a campaign involving other faith groups. The motion sets targets for the city to become carbon neutral by 2030 and includes creating a Climate Emergency Task Force.