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Meeting for Sufferings: BYM trustees’ report
Jennifer Barraclough, clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) trustees, reported to Meeting for Sufferings on the trustees’ meeting that had taken place the previous day. She highlighted three main areas. The first of these concerned risk awareness. An important part of a trustee’s role, she told Friends, was ‘not...
Meeting for Sufferings: Lobbying Act
As part of the BYM trustees’ report, Jennifer Barraclough spoke to Friends about the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014, known as the Lobbying Act. While the ultimate decision over whether to register rests with trustees, she wanted to put it to Meeting for Sufferings for...
Quakers march for climate change
Friends across Britain have helped draw attention to climate change ahead of this week’s UN Climate Summit in New York. More than fifty Quakers were among an estimated 40,000 marchers who came together in central London on Sunday 21 September, also International Day of Peace, to protest. The gathering was one...
Cadbury visit echoes Sibford history
Caring and respect were highlighted recently by Mark Cadbury as central to the atmosphere of a Quaker school. He made the remark on his first visit to Sibford School, where he was guest speaker at the school’s Evening of Celebration on 11 September. The annual event acknowledges the success of...
Requiem at Bootham
Bootham School’s director of music has written a requiem mass to commemorate the outbreak of the first world war. Deeds of Angels, by Paul Feehan, was premiered on Sunday 14 September at the school theatre. It was accompanied by the Bootham Sinfonia. Participants in the event came from all over...
Watford film remembers
Watford Friends have made a film remembering ‘those who defied the call to arms’ in the first world war. Watford’s Quiet Heroes: Resisting the Great War is the work of Chris Pettit and Simon Colbeck. Chris filmed and directed the documentary, while Simon was responsible for writing, research and...
Trident opposed in The Times
Quakers have joined with other faith communities in calling on the government to cancel the replacement of Trident. Juliet Prager, deputy recording clerk of Quakers in Britain, was among the signatories of a letter to The Times arguing that the abolition of nuclear weapons ‘would be a significant contribution to...
Young Quakers explore equality
Sixty-seven young Quakers, aged from eleven to fourteen, took part in this year’s Friends Southern Summer Event (FSSE) summer school, held at Friends’ School Saffron Walden from 16 to 23 August. The young Friends worked with twenty-three staff volunteers to explore the theme of ‘Equality and Inequality’.
Quaker memorial opened in Waterford
Waterford’s Quaker heritage has been acknowledged in the official opening of the city’s Quaker memorial. The memorial, funded by the local council, is on the site of the first Quaker Burial Ground in Waterford, in John’s Lane. Its official opening, two years after completion, was scheduled to...
Kingston Quaker Centre formally opened
Local MPs Ed Davey and Vince Cable were among those who attended the formal opening of the Kingston Quaker Centre on 6 September. The decision to create a new Quaker Centre was made in the late 1990s and the present design is the third one to have been produced in that...