4th October 2024

Scottish Friends call for anti-fossil fuel treaty

Edinburgh Friends took part in the Global Week of Action for Climate Finance and a Fossil Free Future…

by Rebecca Hardy

4th October 2024

Women ‘suicidal’ in Home Office hotels

by Rebecca Hardy

Quaker Asylum Refugee Network (QARN) has highlighted a new survey that shows refugee women are subjected to voyeurism and sexual harassment by male staff at hotels.

4th October 2024

Review trade with Israel, says BYM

by Rebecca Hardy

Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) joined twenty-five charities calling for the UK to review its trade relations with Israel. The letter to Jonathan Reynolds MP, business and trade…

4th October 2024

BBC show highlights The Peace Museum

by Rebecca Hardy

The Peace Museum featured on The One Show last month as part of an episode about the Bradford City of Culture 2025. 

4th October 2024

Quakers revive ‘New Economy’ work

by Rebecca Hardy

Quakers in Switzerland are seeking to learn from British Friends who were involved in Britain Yearly Meeting’s (BYM) ‘New Economy’ work.

Peace pilgrimage says no to Telford arms fair
27th September 2024

Peace pilgrimage says no to Telford arms fair

by Rebecca Hardy
27th September 2024

Friends witness for peace and climate

by Rebecca Hardy

Friends across the country are witnessing this week as part of the Global Week of Action for Peace and Climate Justice. The event is the first of its kind to highlight the links…

27th September 2024

Friends House event inspires pacifist play

by Rebecca Hardy

A Friends House summer event featuring two atomic bomb survivors inspired the playwright and actor Michael Mears to revive a pacifist play.

27th September 2024

Churches support call to end benefit cap

by Rebecca Hardy

A Quaker-hosted anti-poverty network has backed a call to end the two-child limit for benefits.

27th September 2024

Quaker poems for Gaza

by Rebecca Hardy

A St Andrews Friend’s poems have been published in an online Gaza project organised by the Association of Scottish Artists for Peace. 

Keep detention centre closed, says QARN
20th September 2024

Keep detention centre closed, says QARN

by Rebecca Hardy
20th September 2024

Staff at Peace News resign

by Rebecca Hardy

The entire staff team of the eighty-eight-year-old newspaper Peace News (PN) resigned last month. According to a special edition of the magazine at the end of August, the staff…

20th September 2024

Friends concerned over arrest of ‘pro-Palestinian’ journalist

by Rebecca Hardy

Clun Valley Meeting has adopted a concern about the arrest of a ‘pro-Palestinian’ activist and journalist known to local Friends. Sarah Wilkinson, a longtime campaigner for…