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Bournville Friends knit for COP26
Bournville Quakers have knitted hundreds of six-inch squares to make a ‘tree cosy’. The item was installed on 4 September on a large Atlantic Cedar outside their Meeting house. It is due to be taken down after the UN Conference of Parties (COP26) in November in time for the tree to...
Quakers on Songs of Praise
Pendle Hill Quakers are to feature in a BBC Songs of Praise episode this weekend.
Friends get ready for DSEI
Friends have welcomed the London mayor’s statement that the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair should not return to London.
Interfaith pilgrimage for COP26
More than sixty interfaith pilgrims came together in King’s Lynn last month to end their march across Norfolk highlighting the need for action on climate change.
BYM welcomes child protection report
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has welcomed recommendations set out in a major report into child protection in religious organisations and settings.
Quaker Question Time with John Bird
The founder of the Big Issue Group John Bird will feature in the third Quaker Question Time.
Friends mark forty years since Greenham Peace Camp
Quakers were among those marking the fortieth anniversary of the Greenham Women’s Peace Camp this week.
XR Quakers spotlight City of London
Quakers helped highlight the role of the UK’s financial sector in the climate crisis as part of the latest witness by Extinction Rebellion (XR).
Bristol Quakers work for peaceful schools
Bristol Quakers are starting a new online course for promoting peace in schools following a renewed interest in the programme since the pandemic.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell wins Copley Medal
The Quaker astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell has become the second woman to win the Copley Medal for her work on the discovery of pulsars.