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Songs of Praise at Swarthmoor
Quakers are to appear on BBC Songs of Praise next week, on the theme of equality.
Woodbrooke used for affordable housing
The Bournville Village Trust (BVT) is offering Woodbrooke accommodation as affordable housing, which could include it being used by key workers. The move is part of wider plans to ensure the building continues to serve the community.
G7 should pay fair share of climate finance, says BYM
As leaders of the world’s richest countries met at a G7 meeting in Italy last week, Quakers urged them to deliver new, adequate climate finance to developing countries.
Quakers stand for general election
Two parliamentary candidates with Quaker links are standing against each other in a newly-created seat in Bristol.
Devon Friends in War Child concerts
Quakers in Devon took part in a benefit concert this month in aid of children displaced by conflict. Hilary Prentice, from Totnes Meeting, and Steve Day and Stephen Sterling, from Ashburton Meeting, were part of the War Child benefit concerts performed by the Occasional Liberation Music Orchestra & Viva Choir....
Quakers host atomic bombing survivors
Nagasaki must be the last city in the world to ever experience an atomic bomb, two survivors said at Friends House this month.
Quakers and Buddhists walk in peace
Quakers and Buddhists are coming together to organise a second multi-faith silent walk for peace.
Exmouth Quakers mark Refugee week
Exmouth Quakers are celebrating ‘the richness and diversity’ of their local community for Refugee Week. For the occasion, the Friends have invited local businesses to exhibit two poems by David Woolger, a seventy-six-year-old local poet from the Meeting.
Historic Adderbury Meeting House reopens
Banbury and Evesham Area Meeting is shining a spotlight on ‘receptive ecumenism’ this weekend.
QAN celebrates the arts
The Quaker Arts Network (QAN) held its first in-person event since Covid this month. The annual general meeting ‘was an amazing day’, David Fish, from Rugby Meeting, told the Friend. ‘Several of the engagements should have been on my bucket list, they were so good, and the energy of the...