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London Quakers decide to provide childcare
London Quakers have taken the policy decision to provide childcare at all their daytime conferences and meetings. Fred Ashmore told the Friend: ‘It’s in the interests of diversity. Anyone who is in the bracket of having children to look after and is willing to sacrifice a Saturday to come...
Quaker in London Stock Exchange action
Friends continued their support of the Extinction Rebellion (XR) demonstrations across London last week with a range of protests that included blockading roads and targeting the London Stock Exchange (LSE).
Friends set out the future of London Quaker structures
London Quakers (LQ) and the London Quaker Property Trust (LQPT) met last week to discuss proposals to form a single charity to govern Meetings in the capital.
Quaker MP calls for end to criminalising homeless
Quaker Homeless Action (QHA) has welcomed a Quaker MP’s call for an end to what she describes as ‘the criminalisation of homeless people’.
Quaker publishes book on interspecies bond
A Friend from Clun Valley Meeting and member of Quaker Concern for Animals (QCA) has written an illustrated book that touches on the deep human-animal bond that can be accessed through stillness.
Lecture on Quaker testimonies in ‘turbulent times’
A former Friends House employee suggested two more Quaker testimonies in a far-ranging lecture she gave to Southern Africa Yearly Meeting. Helen Vale, of the Namibia Quaker Community, delivered the Richard Gush Memorial Lecture on 21 April entitled ‘Re-envisioning the Quaker Testimonies in turbulent times: seeking from the silence’.
Peacebuilding playlist on YouTube
A Britain Yearly Meeting employee has put together a playlist of over seventy YouTube videos that focus on the themes of peacebuilding and nonviolence.
QSA celebrates money project for struggling families
Quaker Social Action (QSA) presented the findings from its financial wellbeing project ‘Get Set’ at the end of March, which was set up for Islington families. The event on 28 March also included presentations from social enterprises Rocket Science, The Parent House and Talk for Health.
Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust to ‘significantly increase grant spending’
The Quaker Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust has announced plans to significantly increase its grant spending by over £3 million per year in a drive to step up its work and widen its geographical spread. The move will take the Trust’s annual grant spending from around £7 million per year to over £10...
Friends flock for Extinction Rebellion protest
Quakers were among the thousands who took part in the Extinction Rebellion (XR) protest last week, which organisers described as the biggest civil disobedience on record. Friends from Meetings that included Kingsbridge, Bristol, Huddersfield and Bath put their faith into action as they joined protests at four major London landmarks:...