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• Sharing faith adventurously in Quaker Week

  22 September 2015

  In Quaker Week (3-11 October) Quakers around Britain will find simple and imaginative ways to share and deepen their faith.

  Sharing personal faith journeys is a key element of the week. Follow us on Twitter @BritishQuakers.

• Welfare reform will hit the poorest hardest

  11 September 2015

  Quakers in Britain was one of 20 organisations who signed a letter in The Daily Telegraph today outlining our concerns on welfare reform. Parliament is currently considering the Welfare Reform and Work Bill, which proposes a raft of further cuts to our social security system.

• Quakers urgently call for safe paths for refugees

  5 September 2015

  The representative body of Quakers in Britain, Meeting for Sufferings, has made the following statement in reaction to the unfolding refugee crisis.

• Our faith in the future

  1 September 2015

  Meeting for Sufferings, the representative body for Quakers in Britain, meets on Saturday. Named after its original purpose of recording the sufferings of Quakers imprisoned and tortured for their faith, 'Sufferings' meets six times a year. One hundred Quakers, from the north of Scotland to west Cornwall, gather in the Quaker central offices in London to discern national Quaker work.

• Quakers at Greenbelt

  27 August 2015

  This year Quakers in Britain is an associate at Greenbelt festival of arts, faith and justice. We're hosting discussions and kite-making workshops as well as storytelling, songs, panel debates and meetings for worship in the Quaker dome.

• Quakers urge action to halt demolitions in occupied West Bank

  26 August 2015

  Quaker Peace & Social Witness and EAPPI UK and Ireland signed the following statement. Take action by writing to your MP asking them to raise these concerns with the government.

• Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  24 August 2015

  Candles exchanged between London and Hiroshima were lit to remember when the first atomic bombs were dropped seventy years ago. In silence, music and poetry, lives lost were remembered.

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