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Quaker launches new climate movement
Rupert Read, the Quaker who delivered this year’s Salter Lecture, has co-launched a new climate movement. The Climate Majority Project (CMP) is aimed at harnessing the growing majority of people in the UK who are in favour of more action to tackle the climate crisis. The initiative is aimed...
Bamford Quaker Community to close
The longstanding Bamford Quaker Community in the Peak District has announced it is to close, after thirty-five years.
BYM condemns Illegal Migration Act
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has joined 289 organisations to uphold and stand alongside those affected by the government’s ‘senselessly cruel’ Illegal Migration Act. The bill passed the Lords last week, after what BYM described as ‘choppy progress through parliament, with the Lords making repeated amendments’.
Quaker play misses out on arts funding
The playwright and actor Michael Mears has had an application for Arts Council funding turned down. He was hoping for support for a twenty-eight-day tour of his play The Mistake. The work focuses on Hiroshima and the first atomic bombings, and will be shown at Quaker venues, among other places,...
Peace lessons highlight nuclear risks
Friends have helped highlight the legacy of early atomic scientists in peace lessons for secondary schools.
Quakers speak on Ukraine
The Quaker group Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) is calling on all governments and international organisations to create ‘the preconditions for a just peace’, in light of the continuing war in Ukraine. This will involve ‘planning the reconstruction of the areas devastated by the war and restitution’, and ‘rehabilitation of...
Friends counter climate denialism
Friends are backing a network that is working across the UK to tackle climate denialism. The initiative, called MP Watch, has been set up to monitor climate deniers.
BYM tells PM to back climate promises
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has called on Rishi Sunak to keep his promises on climate finance. BYM joined ninety-one other organisations in writing to the prime minister to ask him to stand by his commitment to a £11.6bn climate finance fund.
FWCC ‘birthday pack’ for George Fox
Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) has published a birthday pack to help Meetings and schools celebrate George Fox’s 400th birthday next year.
Journeymen Theatre closes
Journeymen Theatre has given its last performance, after thirteen years of touring issue-based dramas across the UK.