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Norton Friends in rewilding project
Quakers in Stockton-on-Tees are working with Tees Valley Wildlife Trust to use their burial ground for nature and local people.
Friends mark Stephen Lawrence anniversary
Quakers have been speaking out on the thirtieth anniversary of Stephen Lawrence’s murder this month. The killing of the eighteen-year-old in Eltham, southeast London, on 22 April 1993, marks a watershed moment for race equality in Britain. As a result of the Metropolitan Police’s flawed investigation into Stephen’s killing,...
New exhibition on Quaker simplicity
Friends have been sharing their thoughts on Quaker simplicity for a new exhibition at the Quaker Tapestry Museum. The display will feature videos recorded by Friends alongside historical items reflecting Quaker approaches to their longstanding testimony.
Quakers mark Earth Day
Friends are getting ready to celebrate Earth Day with this year’s theme of ‘invest in our planet’. As numerous Quakers flock to Westminster to join Extinction Rebellion’s ‘The Big One’ – timed to coincide with the international day – Muswell Hill Meeting will be hosting a family Earth Day event...
Kindlers put spotlight on Quaker worship
The Quaker group The Kindlers is seeking to hear from Friends for a new booklet on Quaker worship. James McCarthy, who is writing the booklet, told the Friend: ‘Apart from asking for people’s responses to [specific set questions], we will also be seeking to interview some people in more...
Sally Beamish releases new Quaker-commissioned work
A new choral work by Quaker composer Sally Beamish, commissioned by Friends, is now available on YouTube.
Quakers gear up for ‘The Big One’
Quakers up and down the country are planning to take part in Extinction Rebellion (XR)’s planned days of witness for climate action this month. Titled ‘The Big One’, and running from 21 to 24 April in Westminster, organisers aim to attract around 100,000 people to call for urgent action on the climate...
BYM ‘disappointed’ by UK net zero strategy
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has expressed ‘profound disappointment and concern’ that the revised net zero strategy announced on 30 March provides ‘so little of what is needed to meet the vast challenge of ending the fossil fuel era’.
Quakers launch ‘listening space’
Friends from Central England joined the first Quaker Listening Space last month, hosted by the Quaker group Restoring Relations.
Quaker lockdown group meets for the first time
Twenty-nine people from a Quaker group formed in lockdown came to meet together in person for the very first time at the Quaker Glenthorne Guest House and Conference Centre last month. The Friends spent the weekend of 17-19 March together in Grasmere in Cumbria to celebrate three years of Meeting...