‘QARN brings together Friends from across Britain who are involved in work alongside people seeking sanctuary in order to raise their voices together on policy issues on refugee rights.'…
by Rebecca Hardy
The part-Quaker-founded Climate Majority Project (CMP) highlighted the power of ‘silent majorities’ during last month’s Climate Action Week.
Parliamentarians are continuing to demand an investigation into illegal military transfers from the UK to Israel.
Former Salter lecturer and Quaker United Nations Office director Nozizwe Madlala-Routlege has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Strathclyde. The South African…
Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) trustees have appointed Irenée Rajaona-Horne as its new coordinator. With Philip Austin due to retire at the end of 2026, Irenée will start in…
Peace campaigners are calling on the government to redirect money spent on Armed Forces Day (AFD), saying it ‘normalises’ war to children.
A group of Quakers have spoken out about the Supreme Court ruling on the legal definition of sex.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has joined over fifty organisations calling for a rethink on UK military spending, ahead of the NATO summit in Ankara.
An award-winning folksinger played to East Garston Quakers for a midsummer musical evening last month.
Over a hundred singers stood outside Lambeth Palace and Westminster Abbey last weekend, calling for the Church of England (CoE) to rewild church land.
Two Westminster Quakers joined a monthly silent walk last month to remember the seventy-two people killed by the Grenfell Tower disaster on 14 June 2017.
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