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Claridge House looks to the future
Major refurbishment and improvements are on the way for Claridge House, the Quaker retreat centre in Dormansland, Surrey. The work includes making all bedrooms en suite and enhancing facilities for people with disabilities. The centre will be closed for the first half of 2016, to enable all the work to be...
Rowntree Walks go further
The Rowntree Society has announced plans to expand its original ‘Rowntree Walk’ leaflet. The new guide will be a twenty-page booklet containing five distinct walks in York, all of which have links to the Rowntree family.
Peru: more open places released
Additional open places have been added for those hoping to participate in the next Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) plenary.
Twelve Friends and a dog
A dozen Quakers and a seemingly camera-shy dog walked from Boscombe Pier to Bournemouth Pier on Saturday 17 October.
Friends House visitors share A-bomb experiences
Atomic bombing survivors (hibakusha) Masashi Ieshima and Kuniko Kimura visited Friends House on 12 October, as part of a tour of Europe. Paul Parker, recording clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting, welcomed the visitors to Friends House. He said: ‘It is important to us as Quakers that the events of 1945 are never...
Peace groups gather in Brussels
The Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) was among thirty-seven peacebuilding organisations who met in Brussels on 7-8 October. The organisations gathered for the European Peacebuilding Liaison Office (EPLO) General Assembly. They hoped to agree strategies for persuading European governments to invest in peacebuilding as the most effective response to...
Friends live adventurously for Quaker Week
The theme for Quaker Week 2015 was ‘Live adventurously’, and a number of Meetings across Britain took up the challenge. More than one hundred people took part in events organised by Harrogate Meeting. Six Meetings for Worship took place, including several outdoors. The Meeting’s children, when asked to interpret living...
Manchester vigils
Quakers took part in seven vigils during the Conservative party conference in Manchester as a witness against the growing inequality in British society. Most vigils were on the steps of Mount Street Meeting House.
Success for Quaker school librarian
Leighton Park School librarian Chris Routh is on the honour list for the 2015 SLA (School Library Association) School Librarian of the Year award. Chris has worked at the Quaker school, in Reading, Berkshire, since 2003. Among the work that saw her make the SLA honour list was a 2014 project that focused...
Ethical investment options highlighted
Good Money Week 2015 takes place from 18 to 24 October. The week-long campaign to raise awareness of sustainable, responsible and ethical finance was formerly known as National Ethical Investment Week (NEIW). It was rebranded in 2014.