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Warwick pushes eco agenda
Warwick Friends recently held a sustainability forum as part of their bid to become an Eco-Congregation. The Meeting must meet certain criteria in order to become an Eco-Congregation. One of these is to organise a sustainability forum.
Long Lartin service marks Prisons Week
Sunday Worship on BBC Radio 4 on 15 November will be a special service recorded in the chapel of HMP Long Lartin, in Worcestershire, to mark the beginning of Prisons Week.
Lancaster Friends engage with local businesses
Lancaster Quakers have marked Living Wage Week (1-7 November) by writing to local businesses. Friends wrote of their interest in engaging businesses in conversation about the Living Wage. They also offered to explain it to any businesses who were still unaware of it.
Health Through Peace
A two-day event, Health Through Peace, is taking place at Friends House on 13-14 November.
Trust welcomes clarification in judicial review
The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT) has issued a statement concerning its recent participation in a judicial review claim brought by the advocacy organisation Cage. The claim was heard in the High Court on 21 October. It concerned the Charity Commission’s actions towards the Trust and other charities in March...
German Friends come together
German Yearly Meeting took place at the Quaker Meeting house in Bad Pyrmont, Lower Saxony, from 22 to 25 October. Some 180 Friends and attenders were present, among them children and Young Friends. The annual Cary Lecture was given by Esther Köhring, a Young Friend.
Leaveners bring hope
The Quaker arts group the Leaveners recently collaborated with Birmingham artists Jonathan Graney and Dale Hipkiss on a visual art installation called ‘Hope’.
Ipswich Quakers support interfaith initiative
The idea that Christian, Muslim and Judaic extremism play equally important roles in destabilising Middle Eastern societies was explored at a recent conference.
Historic Meeting house no longer ‘at risk’
The Blue Idol Meeting House in West Sussex has been taken off Historic England’s list of vulnerable historic buildings. The seventeenth century Meeting house had been on the register since 2012, when its condition was judged ‘very bad’.
Friends watch The Divide
Milton Keynes Friends recently held a public preview of the new film The Divide. The film looks at the growing gap between rich and poor, and its impact on society in Britain and the United States. It was inspired by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett’s 2009 book The Spirit Level.