Thought for the week

Resilience required: Rupert Read’s Thought for the Week

‘Adaptation is no longer optional.’

by Rupert Read

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6th February 2026

AFSC pledges to continue work in Gaza

by Rebecca Hardy
6th February 2026

Fifth anniversary of anti-nuclear treaty

by Rebecca Hardy

Quakers have been celebrating the fifth anniversary of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).

6th February 2026

JRF: ‘Deep poverty’ highest for thirty years

by Rebecca Hardy

The number of people in the UK in ‘very deep poverty’ is at its highest in more than thirty years, a new report from the Quaker-founded Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has…

6th February 2026

UK civic space ‘at a precipice’

by Rebecca Hardy

Civic spaces are increasingly under threat, civic society groups warned at a Quaker-co-hosted conference at Friends House in London last week.