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Meeting for Sufferings: The role of Sufferings
A concern that Meeting for Sufferings is not fulfilling its role in setting priorities for the work of Britain Yearly Meeting was addressed at Sufferings on Saturday morning.
Meeting for Sufferings: Court and prison register
Meeting for Sufferings was given clarification on Friends who were arrested when witnessing at the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair last year.
QCA respond to animal welfare bill
Quaker Concern for Animals (QCA) has responded to the government consultation for its draft Animal Welfare (Sentencing and Recognition of Sentience) Bill, which ended on 31 January. The draft was created following recent public outrage after MPs voted to reject an EU clause which says animals are sentient in domestic law...
Quakers take part in refugee conference
This week Quakers were among a multi-faith group who gathered at Friends House for the Churches Refugee Network Conference.
Arms exports increase by twenty-eight per cent since the Brexit vote
Britain has dramatically increased the value of weaponry and defence equipment it sells to the world’s most repressive regiments since Brexit, the Independent’s sister newspaper i has claimed.
Sharing sustainability stories
The Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) is gathering stories of Quaker sustainability-in-action projects from around the world. The organisation has already brought together testimonies from Rwanda, the United States, Bolivia, Switzerland, and European and Middle East Young Friends (EMEYF).
Quakers back straw campaign but say more must be done
Quakers have backed the Evening Standard’s ‘Last Straw’ campaign but called for more action in the fight against climate change. The campaign, initiated recently by the free London newspaper, highlights the environmental damage caused by plastic straws.
Kindness and Kindertransport
The role the Quakers played in helping Jewish people in the second world war escape from Nazi Germany to Britain was the subject of a presentation at Bootham School in York on 31 January.
Friends welcome cut in Dignity Simple Funeral costs
Quaker Social Action (QSA) has welcomed the news that the UK’s biggest privately-owned funeral operator, Dignity, recently announced it is reducing the cost of its Simple Funeral by twenty-five per cent.
Numbers of those in poverty will rise in 2018, says JRF
This year is set to be an increasingly difficult one for low-income households, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has predicted, with average price inflation for the UK standing at its highest since April 2012.