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Meeting for Sufferings: Simplification
After an update on the agenda for Yearly Meeting in session (30 July to 8 August 2022), and a minute from Manchester and Warrington AM calling for increased consideration of the plight of the Uighur communities in China, the Meeting received a paper from BYM trustees on a process for simplifying Quaker structures....
Friends highlight census’s arms link
Huddersfield Quakers have alerted Friends to the fact that a leading military company is involved in the UK 2021 Census. The contract for processing census forms has been put in the hands of Leidos, one of the world’s biggest military companies. This follows the last census ten years ago when...
Race report ‘ignores need for structural change’
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has said that it is ‘disappointed’ in the UK government’s race report that was released last week. It said that BYM had called ‘for action to carry out the recommendations of previous reports and tackle structural inequalities’. The Quakers in Britain account tweeted: ‘We’re...
Database for women peace meditators
The Quaker group Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) has highlighted a new platform aimed at putting women in the forefront of peacemaking.
Friends consider future of The Pales
Friends from Southern Marches Area Quaker Meeting (SMAQM) came together last month to consider the future of the eighteenth-century Meeting house The Pales.
Scottish Quakers support hustings guide
Quakers in Scotland are publicising a guide to help Friends engage with candidates for the Scottish parliamentary elections in May. The twenty-seven-page guide, put together by the Scottish Churches Parliamentary Office, looks at how to run a hustings meeting. There are details on inviting candidates, appointing a chair, and different...
Friends mark day of reflection for Covid-19
Quakers joined people all over the country to mark a national day of reflection on 23 March, with a nationwide minute of silence at noon followed by bells tolling. Paul Parker, recording clerk for Britain Yearly Meeting, was among eighty-two leaders from religious groups who signed an open letter backing the...
Bristol Quakers hold peace lecture
Bristol Quakers held their annual peace lecture last week on the theme of ‘Can war be abolished? Britain’s role in working for world peace.’
Greenham woman thanks Newbury Meeting
A former member of the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Movement has paid tribute to Newbury Meeting and the support it gave to the community.
‘Quaker Question Time’
The Labour MP Preet Kaur Gill will feature in the second of the ‘Quaker Question Time’ events, which will take place online in June. Friends will be able to put questions to the shadow secretary of state for International Development and Britain’s first female Sikh MP, who, according...