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White poppies – a left-wing agenda?
The decision by over 100 teachers to support the campaign to sell white poppies in schools, made at the recent National Union of Teachers conference, has prompted a lively public discussion on the subject of war, peace and remembrance.
Kenyan Quakers call for calm
Quakers in Kenya are calling on Friends in Britain and around the world to uphold them as the political crisis in their country deepens.
Living Wage accreditation
Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Area Meeting (AM) has recently joined the list of those organisations accredited as a Living Wage employer. Living Wage rates are independently calculated based on what people need to get by.
Quaker peace campaigner on trial in Burnley
The trial of Quaker campaigner Sam Walton, who along with Methodist minister Dan Woodhouse is charged with criminal damage for their attempt to disarm warplanes being sold to Saudi Arabia, was due to start on 24 October in Burnley Magistrates’ Court. The trial was expected to last three days.
Quaker work in North Korea
Lucy Roberts, the regional director of the Asia Programme of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), recently talked to about sixty people at an event organised by members of Bradford on Avon Meeting.
Digging the Dirt on tour
A play set partly in the world of the seventeenth century Digger movement is presently touring Quaker Meeting houses in Britain.
QSA leader wins top award
Judith Moran, director of Quaker Social Action (QSA), has won the Outstanding Individual Achievement award at the 2017 Charity Times Awards held on 4 October. This comes just two weeks after she was highly commended in the CEO of the Year category at the Third Sector Awards.
Meeting for Sufferings: Speaking out for Friends
Paul Parker, the recording clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting, spoke about the broader role of communications from Friends House. All of the speaking out, he explained, is done on behalf of Friends and, in doing work on a huge range of issues, ‘we work on your behalf and we have...
Meeting for Sufferings: Sufferings considers Sanctuary Everywhere
Meeting for Sufferings, held at Manchester Meeting House on Mount Street on Saturday 7 October, was asked, as part of the ongoing work on forced migration, to approve a ‘Sanctuary Everywhere Manifesto’. The Manifesto was part of the annual report of Quaker Peace & Social Witness Central Committee (QPSWCC). It was...
Meeting for Sufferings: Reflecting on Yearly Meeting Gathering
At Meeting for Sufferings representatives were asked to reflect on their experience of the Yearly Meeting Gathering (YMG) held at the University of Warwick in August, whether they had attended or not.