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Canadian Friends issue statement
As Canada celebrated 150 years since Confederation last weekend, the Canadian Friends Service Committee (CFSC) encouraged people to ‘give some thought to how these celebrations impact our Indigenous partners and friends’.
Quaker MPs fired from front bench
Quaker MPs Catherine West, who will deliver this year’s Swarthmore Lecture, and Ruth Cadbury have lost their positions as Labour shadow ministers.
NFPB reflects on 2016
The Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) has issued its annual report highlighting work done in 2016.
Wilmslow Friends ‘Get Together’
Wilmslow Quakers, together with Transition Wilmslow, teamed up with the town’s monthly Artisan Market to put on ‘The Great Wilmslow Get Together’ on 17 June. This was one of many events that took that weekend to remember Jo Cox MP. Market-goers were offered gingham ribbon and pennants. Over 100 stallholders entered...
Christians disrupt military conference at Church House
Christian campaigners disrupted an arms industry-funded event at Church House Westminster on 28 June. They blockaded the main entrance to the building, as defence secretary Michael Fallon was due to speak, insisting that a Christian venue should not be hosting the annual Land Warfare Conference.
Quaker statement urges listening and tolerance
Britain Yearly Meeting has responded to the recent attacks in Manchester and London with a statement urging listening and tolerance.
Vigil in Bury St Edmunds
Friends in Bury St Edmunds held a half-hour silent vigil at the Memorial Peace Garden in Abbey Gardens on Armed Forces Day.
New face leading Ramallah Friends School
Friends United Meeting has appointed Adrian Moody as of head of Ramallah Friends School. He will take up his post in August, succeeding Joyce Ajlouny. She has served for thirteen years and is leaving to become general secretary of the American Friends Service Committee.
Rowing for mental health
Girls from The Mount senior school for eleven to eighteen-year-olds will be rowing the length of York’s River Ouse on Monday 3 July. Funds raised will be donated to the George Toplis Foundation, which supports young people with autism and mental illness, providing long-term funding for their engagement in sport.
Still time to book for YMG
Spaces are still available for adults wishing to attend Britain Yearly Meeting Gathering at the University of Warwick from 29 July to 5 August, it has been announced by Friends House. Friends need to book now and there are no places left for under-eighteens.