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Unique Quaker building gains award
The Friends Institute on Moseley Road in Birmingham has been listed at Grade II* by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, on the advice of English Heritage.
Meeting for Sufferings: New terms for sustainability group
Terms of reference for a new Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) Sustainability Group were brought to Meeting for Sufferings last week. In June the Minute 36 Group had recommended that a new group be set up to oversee BYM’s commitment to sustainability. This was accepted.
Quakers witness for peace
Quakers were among those who took part in a national anti-war demonstration held in London on Saturday 4 October. Before joining the Stop Bombing Iraq march, the fifteen-strong group met in Temple Place for Meeting for Worship.
Palestinian statehood
A motion to recognise Palestine as a state was backed by 274 votes to 12 in the House of Commons on Monday 13 October. The motion, put forward by Labour MP Grahame Morris, urged the government to ‘recognise the state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel as a contribution to securing a...
Bruce Kent speaks at Bury St Edmunds
Veteran anti-war campaigner Bruce Kent gave a talk at Bury St Edmunds Meeting House on Sunday 5 October. A seventy-strong audience heard him speak on ‘Striving for Peace in a Troubled World’. Bruce called on more young people to campaign for peace and said that a relatively small number of people...
First event in Large Meeting House
The Large Meeting House at Friends House hosted its first post-refurbishment event, for Birkbeck College, on 30 September.
Mount School menu success
The Mount School in York has been awarded a prestigious national food industry award. James Goodwin, chef manager at The Mount, won the accolade of Independent School Caterer of the Year at the annual EDUcatering Awards at the Royal Garden Hotel, Kensington.
Meeting for Sufferings: ‘A visionary and prophetic body’
Representatives of Meeting for Sufferings (MfS), who had travelled to London from every corner of Britain to meet in the George Fox Room at Friends House on Saturday 4 October, were able to take a rare opportunity to look in a mirror. The main question on the agenda was: What is...
Meeting for Sufferings: Contributions significantly down
There has been a dramatic fall in contributions this year of some sixteen per cent from individuals and Meetings towards the work of Britain Yearly Meeting. Peter Ullathorne, BYM treasurer, spoke to Sufferings about the state of the finances of Britain Yearly Meeting. He said that the finances were in...
Meeting for Sufferings: ‘Courage to Save the Planet’
Devon Area Meeting sent a minute to Meeting for Sufferings for adoption and publicising among Friends. Minute 55/2014: ‘Courage to Save the Planet’ suggests that Friends are asked to hold politicians in the Light for a minute each evening at 9.00pm, ‘seeking to influence them to have the courage and leadership...