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Quakers call for nuclear disarmament
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has signed a joint letter calling on world leaders to phase out nuclear weapons.
BYM joins calls to end closure of Gaza
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has joined calls for the UK government to take urgent action to end the blockade of Gaza.
Friends mark Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day
Central England Quakers are preparing for their annual Coventry Hiroshima Remembrance at Coventry Cathedral. Now in its thirty-fifth year, the service will be live-streamed from the nave of Coventry Cathedral on 6 August. The day is to mark the seventy-seventh anniversary since the first atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima – and...
Play to mark Hiroshima wins award
The Quaker actor and playwright Michael Mears has won an award for his play based on the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
Stratford Quakers house Ukrainian refugees
Quakers in Stratford-upon-Avon have welcomed a Ukrainian family to the warden’s flat at their Meeting house. The accommodation became vacant in April following the death of the warden. The family – husband, wife and teenage son – arrived in mid-July through the Homes for Ukraine scheme.
Woodbrooke talks of ‘period of significant change’
The Quaker study centre Woodbrooke has issued a statement signalling ‘a period of significant change’. Describing how ‘the pandemic has changed Woodbrooke irrevocably’, the statement published on 28 July says that ‘new challenges have brought long-standing issues of financial sustainability into sharp focus’.
Friends support airshow protest
The Quaker Roots group supported protests at the Farnborough International Airshow last week. Friends joined activists at the Hampshire event, which the White Poppy for Peace Campaign called ‘an arms fair in all but name, providing multinational arms companies… with a means to display their products’.
Cotteridge Friends highlight food poverty
Cotteridge Quakers have highlighted the ‘very urgent needs’ of foodbanks, saying that at their service there is ‘more food going out than coming in’.
Quaker peace education pack wins major prize
A peace education teaching pack, designed and produced by Britain Yearly Meeting, has been chosen by teachers for a major award.
Candidates for prime minister judged on defence and climate
As the Conservative leadership race heats up, Quakers have been sharing assessments on how the final two candidates – Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss – stand on defence and climate proposals.