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Friends celebrate landmark prison Meetings
A group of American Quakers has just marked forty years of Meetings for Worship at the Auburn Correction Facility in New York state. The Meetings, which were the first in the state prison system, began in 1974. They started at the request of prisoners who had met Quakers already involved...
Good Chicken Award
Friends House Hospitality has been awarded a Good Chicken Award by Compassion in World Farming (CiWF). This award recognises the steps that the company have taken to ensure that all the fresh chicken Friends House uses meets minimum welfare criteria. This is the second award they have received from CiWF,...
Peacebuilder exhibition travels
This Light that pushes ME, an exhibition on African peacemakers that recently graced the walls of Friends House, has been on display at the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, which took place in London between 10 and 13 June.
New Zealand Friends to disinvest from fossil fuels
Quakers in Aotearoa New Zealand agreed at their recent Yearly Meeting to withdraw funds from the four main Australian-owned banks because of their investment in fossil fuels. Aotearoa New Zealand Yearly Meeting also agreed not to make future investments which profit from fossil fuels. Local Meetings, committees and trusts...
Olympic rower joins staff at The Mount
Olympic silver medallist rower Gillian Lindsay has been appointed by The Mount School in York as their new director of sport and wellbeing. Gillian was a national champion in the single scull at thirteen and went on to become world champion in 1998. She has competed in three Olympic Games...
Meeting for Sufferings: Nominators nominated to review Nominations Committee
A concern over the number of younger Friends asking for early release from Central Nominations Committee (CNC) was raised at Meeting for Sufferings.
Meeting for Sufferings: New Canterbury commitment group recommended
It was proposed at Meeting for Sufferings that a new Canterbury Commitment Group be formed to take up the work of the Minute 36 (Canterbury) Commitment Group. The group, it was suggested, would take on a leadership role and provide encouragement, support and guidance to all parts of the Quaker...
Meeting for Sufferings: Britain Yearly Meeting trustees
A very positive note was sounded by Jennifer Barraclough, clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) trustees, when she spoke to Meeting for Sufferings (MfS) of the work of the group. BYM trustees, she was pleased to report, had recently ‘caught up’ with a lot of work. The review...
Meeting for Sufferings: QCEA - ‘Your Quaker voice in Europe’
The diverse work and witness of the Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) was reported to Meeting for Sufferings. Sarah Coote, Britain Yearly Meeting representative to QCEA, spoke very lucidly and passionately about the activities of the organisation and talked about personnel changes and the current work priorities.
Meeting for Sufferings: Review group agreed for listed informal groups
Meeting for Sufferings (MfS) agreed to recommend the setting up of a small short term review group to consider the status of informal groups within Quakers in Britain. Quaker faith & practice (13.19) explains that ‘listed informal groups are independent groups through which Friends may share affirmation, or carry out...