Inclusion & Diversity Survey
A request for participation in a simple survey, from Edwina Peart, coordinator of the Inclusion and Diversity Project at Britain Yearly Meeting. Read More …
Category: Equality
Appeal for Coventry Peace House
Coventy Quaker Meeting has supported Coventry Peace House for 20 years, and is appealing for donations from Quaker individuals to “the Pillar Project” to create a 50 person community room. Background – From 1998, Coventry Peace House has been a Read More …
Birmingham schools rush to seek School of Sanctuary status
When the then Home Secretary Theresa May said in 2012 that “The aim is to create, here in Britain, a really hostile environment for illegal immigrants” she may not have foreseen that her words would result in a cultural environment Read More …
Birmingham City Centre Churches Together
Claire Bowman, Ecumenical & Interfaith Coordinator for Central Engalnd Quakers reports on the latest meeting woith Birmingham City Churches together: On Thursday the 19th of June I met with church leaders from other Birmingham city centre churches on behalf of Read More …
Quaker Diversity & Inclusion Survey
During his Eva Koch Scholarship, Nim Njuguna is seeking to explore current Quakers’ experiences of marginalization and privilege and how Friends can become Diversity Champions both within Quaker Meetings and the wider society. Would you be willing to help Nim Read More …
Support Quakers Riding for Equality
In Spring 1660 Margaret Fell rode to London with a declaration to appeal to Charles II to end the persecution and suffering of Quakers. She declared: “We do … inform the governors of this nation, high and low, that we Read More …
Christians at Pride
Claire Bowman (Area Meeting Ecumenical and Interfaith Coordinator) gives her take on Quakers’ participation in Birmingham Pride 2018. Bus stops had rainbows on and an atmosphere of excitement pervaded the whole of Birmingham city centre on May 26th at the Read More …