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Derby Meeting peace vigil
Friends in Derby are holding a peace vigil during July at the industrial museum in the town.
Campaigners seek to appeal ruling on Saudi arms exports
Campaigners have said they will appeal a ‘very disappointing’ High Court decision last week which allows the UK government to continue exporting arms to Saudi Arabia for use in Yemen.
Foodbank initiative
St Cuthbert’s Anglican Church in Lytham, Lancashire, has taken the foodbank idea to a new level by introducing a ‘community fridge’ on church premises. The church is working in partnership with the FairShare and FoodCloud organisations and their local food shops.
Green gunk goodbye
Maggie Guy, Sibford School’s retiring deputy head and head of boarding, had an unusual send-off after she agreed to be covered from head to toe in green gunk as part of the Quaker school’s support for Banardo’s.
Nuclear weapons ban treaty adopted
Quaker observers hailed the adoption last week of a United Nations treaty aimed at ridding the world of nuclear weapons as a huge step.
QUNO presence at African youth peace event
Quaker United Nations Office’s (QUNO) representative for peacebuilding, Megan Schmidt, participated in a Dialogue and Exchange Programme (DEP) on the role of young people in the prevention of electoral violence, held in Nairobi, Kenya from 29 June to 1 July.
Quakers Uniting in Publications annual meeting
Quakers Uniting in Publications (QUIP) held its annual meeting in March at the Penn Center on Saint Helena Island in South Carolina, USA, with the theme ‘Are Quakers Still Publishers of Truth?’
Change against chains at Bootham School
Students at Bootham School in York have collected £1,100 in loose change to help break the chains of modern day slavery.
Fracking opposed in Lancashire
A YouGov survey of Lancashire residents for Friends of the Earth reveals that sixty-six per cent are opposed to fracking within five miles of where they live and fifty-four per cent said that they thought fracking was unsafe.
Child’s treatment in prison declared unlawful
A boy who was isolated in his cell for months on end in a London prison was treated unlawfully because he was denied sufficient access to education, the High Court ruled on 4 July. As reported in the Friend on 17 March, the boy spent more than 100 days isolated from his peers...