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• Quakers call on new government to stand by promise to clean up public life

  10 July 2024

  Quakers in Britain has pledged to work with the new government and opposition parties to restore trust in our democracy.

• Pity of War sculpture unveiled at National Memorial Arboretum

  4 July 2024

  As over 100 conflicts rage around the world, and the death toll in Gaza and Israel rises to more than 35,000, the first memorial to civilian casualties of war has been unveiled.

• Sign up to Faith Will to leave a lasting legacy of Quaker change

  1 July 2024

  Quakers in Britain have joined three other denominations and Christian Aid in encouraging people to talk about leaving gifts in their wills to the charity, and to their church or Quaker meeting.

• Walk with Me: faith organisations lead a second public silent peace walk

  24 June 2024

  Quakers and other faith groups walked in solidarity through the streets of London on Sunday, 23 June, in a silent call for peace.

• Respect the humanity of all, Quakers urge policy makers this Refugee Week

  20 June 2024

  Quakers in Britain is marking Refugee Week by highlighting the UK's hostile immigration policies alongside Women for Refugee Women (WRW).

• Quakers call on UK to pay fair share of climate finance

  13 June 2024

  As leaders of the world's richest countries meet at a G7 meeting in Italy, Quakers are urging them deliver new, adequate climate finance to developing countries.

• Cumbria Quakers celebrate George Fox’s 400th birthday

  10 June 2024

  Four hundred years after the birth of one of their founders, Quakers in Cumbria celebrated where it all began on Firbank Fell with their annual outdoor meeting for worship.

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