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• Meeting houses remain closed

  8 June 2020

  During the Coronavirus pandemic meeting houses have been closed and Quakers have been meeting online and from their own home. Now the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has announced that from Monday 15 June places of worship in England will be permitted to open for individual prayer in line with social distancing guidelines.

• Communities of colour are over-policed and under-protected

  1 June 2020

  The Coronavirus Act gives police powers to detain anyone they think might be infectious. A group of human rights, racial equality, community, faith and health organisations – including Quakers – say the police powers granted to enforce lockdown are disproportionately impacting people of colour.

• Changing lives by teaching nonviolence

  28 May 2020

  In East Africa, British Quakers are supporting Kenyan peace campaigners to change the core conditions that lead to violent conflict. Kenyans are teaching others different ways of life-changing nonviolence.

• UK pension funds investing billions in nuclear weapons

  27 May 2020

  A survey of UK pension funds and banks released today reveals that billions of pounds are invested in companies that are producing nuclear weapons. The report 'Banks, Pensions and Nuclear Weapons: Investing in Change' is launched by the UK Nuclear Weapons Financing Research Group, comprising researchers from UK faith groups including Quakers in Britain.

• Sharing Quakers' view on marriage

  21 May 2020

  An imam, a bishop and a Quaker had plenty to say on the hot topic of marriage, on a BBC Radio 4 programme broadcast this week.

• Pandemic exacerbates inequalities

  11 May 2020

  Quakers in Britain have joined more than 30 other organisations in calling for a green and just recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Support for new ways of working

  30 April 2020

  The joint BYM/Woodbrooke project to radically reshape support for Quaker communities took a significant step forward this week with news of more local development workers and a key hub office in Leeds.

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