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Meeting for Sufferings: Yearly Meeting financial report
Linda Batten, treasurer of Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM), presented the accounts from the financial report for the year ending 31 December 2018 at Meeting for Sufferings on 6 April.
Quakers welcome end to five-year fracking dispute
Quaker anti-fracking campaigners are celebrating the news that fracking company Cuadrilla will not appeal against the refusal of planning permission for a second shale gas site in Lancashire. The announcement on 22 March that the company will not pursue plans for Roseacre Wood near Blackpool ends a five-year planning dispute between...
Quaker-inspired co-housing project
A radical housing project inspired by Quaker principles is being set up in the south west of England.
Petition against thanksgiving service for sea deterrents
Friends have joined other Christians in condemning a service at Westminster Abbey to mark fifty years of the UK having nuclear weapons at sea.
Quaker MEP calls for Vote Leave ministers to go
Molly Scott Cato MEP has renewed her call for the ministers behind the Vote Leave campaign to be sacked. The demand came after the campaign group dropped its appeal against the Electoral Commission’s ruling last year that it broke the law by funnelling hundreds of thousands of pounds of...
QPSW Spring Conference
More than a hundred Quakers gathered for the Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW) Spring Conference in Alfreton, Derbyshire last month.
‘This Evil Thing’ to mark CO release centenary
The playwright Michael Mears, of Wandsworth Meeting, is staging his play This Evil Thing to mark the centenary of the first release of conscientious objectors (COs) from prison.
Quakers to welcome worldwide Friends to Yearly Meeting
The Quaker World Relations Committee (QWRC) has invited Quakers from other parts of the world family to Britain Yearly Meeting 2019. Lee Taylor told the Friend that this year it has invited Arne Springorum, from Prague Recognised Meeting, and Ludwig van Quirog, from Philippines Yearly Meeting. She said: ‘They are both...
Meeting for Sufferings: Diversity and inclusion discussed
Quakers were asked if they were ‘up for the challenge’ of addressing the issues of inclusion and diversity at Meeting for Sufferings on 6 April. Speaking about her work as inclusion and diversity coordinator for Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM), Edwina Peart spoke about her diversity and inclusion survey and a national...
Meeting for Sufferings: Court and prison register
Friends considered changing the name of the Court and Prison Register after a particular case was brought to their attention. But several voices expressed unease at changing the name after such a long history.