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• Quakers commit to becoming an anti-racist church

  7 December 2020

  Quakers were totally immersed in the slave trade. Not just as abolitionists. They were ship owners, captains, merchants and investors, in ports such as London and Bristol.

  This hard truth faced Quakers' representative body this week as they met online to discuss, among other matters, action on racism. They had before them a minute from the church's trustees which said, “Racism exists among Quakers in Britain and must be tackled at all levels."

• Quakers call for action on racial and ethnic disparities

  4 December 2020

  Quakers in Britain have submitted evidence to the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, calling on the government to embed anti-racism in policies, practice and discourse across society.

• Remembering the Kindertransport

  3 December 2020

  In the tumultuous final days before World War II, Quakers were among many who rescued almost 10,000 children from German-controlled Europe. Quakers' pivotal role was acknowledged this week when the Kindertransport was commemorated.

• Spending review fails to deliver

  25 November 2020

  The government's spending review has failed to deliver on Quaker priorities.

• Time for Quakers to tackle racism

  20 November 2020

  Racism exists among Quakers in Britain and must be tackled at all levels, individually, in their committees and structures and in the church, say their Trustees whose proposals will be discussed next month.

• Pandemic prompts new ways of Quaker worship and witness

  20 November 2020

  Quakers in Britain are set to decide whether to create an online festival for their Yearly Meeting next year.

• Quakers' Yearly Meeting moves online

  15 November 2020

  More than a thousand Quakers successfully held their first Yearly Meeting online today, prevented from meeting face-to-face by the COVID-19 pandemic. Not since 1668 has anything – not even world wars – prevented Yearly Meeting, a time for Quakers to gather in stillness to listen to the promptings of love and truth.

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