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Quakers celebrate LGBT history month
Quakers have celebrated LGBT history this month through outreach and art. Exmouth Quakers invited members and allies of the LGBT community to join them as part of the town’s Exmouth Pride festival. Linking with its mind, body and spirit theme, the Exmouth Pride organisers wrote on Facebook: ‘It was...
Quakers urge peace in Ukraine
Quakers have spoken out about the situation between Russia and Ukraine. Philip Austin, convenor of the Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB), said: ‘This is a deeply worrying time and I hope we can play a useful role by providing and facilitating support, and by sharing information.’
Bristol Peace Lecture draws inspiration from West Africa
Bristol Quakers have chosen a sacred West African musical instrument to accompany this year’s annual Peace Lecture. The event next month will feature playwright and activist Ros Martin and Cameroon musician Alphonse Daudet Touna.
Juliet Prager leaves BYM post
Juliet Prager, the deputy recording clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) since 2013, will be leaving her post at the end of May.
Woodbrooke considers way forward
Woobrooke has said that it will no longer be offering bed and breakfast as it is not financially viable. A statement from the centre says: ‘While the Woodbrooke Centre has remained open for most of the last two years, the business model that the centre was operating before the pandemic...
Anti-frackers welcome Lancashire site shutdown
Quaker anti-fracking campaigners have welcomed a decision to plug and abandon a controversial Lancashire fracking site.
Friends urged to lobby on health bill
Quakers are being urged to write to their MPs about the new Health and Care Bill.
The Retreat commits to public consultation
The Quaker-founded mental health institute The Retreat, York, has agreed a formal contract on the sale of its forty-acre Heslington Road site to developers the PJ Livesey Group.
New LDW for East Midlands
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has announced that a new Local Development Worker (LDW) for the East Midlands region will start in spring. Sarah Shaw will serve Leicester, Notts and Derby, and Lincolnshire Area Meetings from 4 April. Two other new LDWs started early in the year. Ruth Audus is working with...
JRF calls for urgent action on ‘deep poverty’
Rising energy prices will ‘devastate’ the poorest families, the Quaker-founded Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has said.