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Down to Earth project wins major award
Quaker Social Action’s Down to Earth project has been named ‘Breakthrough of the Year’ at the 2015 Third Sector Awards. Down to Earth is the first and only project in the UK to give immediate practical support to people on low incomes who are planning funerals. The Quaker Social Action ...
Quakers worship across time zones
Friends marked World Quaker Day by celebrating their deep connections ‘across cultures and Quaker traditions’. The second annual World Quaker Day, organised by Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC), took place on Sunday 4 October. FWCC called on Friends ‘to remember that Quakers are worshipping through every time zone’ and to...
Drone protest at Friends House
Friends are marking Quaker Week by protesting against the use of military drones. On Monday 5 October, approximately twenty Friends held a Meeting for Worship by a ‘drone shadow’, a simple art installation, in the garden of Friends House.
Northern Friends review peace work
The Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) has published a report on a project that has striven to build peace in Britain since the turn of the century. Building Peace in Diverse Britain looks at steps taken to address concerns about a lack of peace in towns and cities across the...
FWCC makes green commitment
Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) has announced its divestment from fossil fuel companies. The announcement follows a decision made in June 2015 by the organisation’s Central Executive Committee. This was prompted by FWCC’s 2012 ‘Kabarak Call for Peace and Eco-justice’, which recognised the dangers of climate change and its...
Quakers and permaculture: a common thread
Friends were among the speakers at the Twelfth International Permaculture Conference, which took place at Friends House on 8-9 September. More than a thousand permaculture practitioners and activists attended the event. A hundred listened to Friends Laurie Michaelis and Ed Tyler speak on ‘Quakers as a Self-Designing Community’.
‘Arms to renewables’ supported by Harpenden
Many of the skills employed in the arms trade could be put to better use in the renewable energy industry, Harpenden Friends and visitors heard last week.
Quaker activist remembered
A plaque commemorating the life and work of campaigning Friend Sam Peel has been unveiled at Wells-next-the-Sea Meeting House in Norfolk.
Generosity overwhelms High Wycombe Friends
High Wycombe Quakers have received so many donations of goods for refugees that they are no longer able to accept anything other than non-perishable food items.
Reflections on peace at Quaker memorial
Friends gathered in worship earlier this week at the Quaker Service Memorial to mark the United Nations International Day of Peace. Thirty Friends from eight Local Meetings met at the memorial, in the National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire, on Sunday 20 September.