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Fuel poverty training launched
Northfield Ecocentre, a Central England Area Meeting project, has announced a new half-day training course on fuel poverty.
Broadcast postponed
BBC Radio 4 has postponed its Sunday Worship Prisons Week broadcast, recorded at HMP Long Lartin.
Pendle Hill on network radio
Woodbrooke tutor Ben Pink Dandelion will discuss Pendle Hill on a forthcoming edition of BBC Radio 4’s Open Country.
White poppy sales increase
One hundred thousand white poppies were sold in 2015, reflecting an upward trend in sales.
Arms fair action
Campaigners gathered in London on 16 November to show solidary with activists who are resisting an arms fair in Wellington, New Zealand.
Voices and Choices in Hexham Abbey
An exhibition created by Tynedale Friends has opened as part of a two-week-long festival of remembrance at Hexham Abbey and its visitor centre.
‘Made of Money’ anniversary
Quaker Social Action (QSA)’s ‘Made of Money’ campaign is ten years old. Nearly 2,000 families have attended a workshop in the decade since the pioneering financial education project was launched. Four out of five participants are now £50 a month better off, thanks to the skills learnt at the workshops.
Friends Peace Team recalls Nepal efforts
The Friends Peace Team (FPT) Asia West Pacific (AWP) has published a report on its relief efforts following the massive earthquake in Nepal in April.
Friends consider the purpose of business
More than ninety Friends met on 4 November for the Quakers and Business Group’s eleventh annual conference.
Closer ties key for QPSW
Seventy-five Friends gathered at Swanwick, Derbyshire, from 30 October to 1 November 2015, for the annual Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW) autumn conference.