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Campsfield House
The Friend reported on 21 November 2014 that Oxford Quakers were among more than twenty local organisations opposing the proposed expansion of Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre.
Women’s World Day of Prayer
Women around the world will join together in prayer on Friday 6 March.
Friends and Global Divestment Day
Huddersfield Quakers have decided to divest from companies with links to the coal, oil and gas sectors. The decision was taken at a Meeting held earlier this month in the Meeting house in Paddock. The Local Meeting has financial reserves of approximately £35,000. All investments and bank holdings will be reviewed...
Mary’s Joy postponed
Jeanmarie Simpson’s touring production of Mary’s Joy has been postponed. The American actress and playwright arrived at Heathrow Airport on Friday 13 February from Montreal to begin the British leg of her one-woman show but was refused entry because she did not have the appropriate documentation.
Ukraine peace efforts
Quakers in Britain have welcomed the work of German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president François Hollande in helping to broker a ceasefire agreement in Ukraine.
‘Time to Act’
Friends are being called to join the Time to Act on Climate Change march that is being held in London on 7 March. The march will bring people together on the streets of London to demand real action on climate change. The organisers intend to lobby politicians seeking election. They argue...
Molesworth ‘invasion’ remembered
Friends marked the thirtieth anniversary of the ‘invasion’ of RAF Molesworth with an all-faith service at the entrance to the Cambridgeshire base. Seven Quakers from Leicester, Stevenage and London joined with others from Peterborough, March and St Neots on 7 February.
Gloucestershire Friends back amputees through World Cup setback
Quakers in Painswick and else-where in Gloucestershire are supporting amputee footballers in Sierra Leone. Friends are helping fundraise for the Sierra Leone Single Leg Amputee Sports Association (SLASA), which works with young men who lost limbs in the civil war. The team qualified for the finals of the Amputee Football...
Meeting for Sufferings: Quaker values in education
In late 2013 some Area Meetings brought concerns to Meeting for Sufferings about the state of education in Britain today. The concern has grown strongly since then through an informal ‘Quaker Values in Education’ group and other initiatives. A threshing gathering, held at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in August 2014, was...
Meeting for Sufferings: Sufferings told of a ‘Quaker treasure box’
Rowena Loverance, assistant clerk of Quaker Committee for Christian and Interfaith Relations (QCCIR), spoke to their annual report. She explained that QCCIR reports to Meeting for Sufferings every year, but this is the first time under the committee’s new set of terms of reference. Douglas Butterfield and Ben Wood...