Sutton Coldfield Quaker meeting house was full on 22 November for a meeting with local MP, Andrew Mitchell. Update: this meeting recently received coverage in a Sutton Coldfield local newspaper. Read More …
Several Central England Quakers were very involved with Footsteps’ recent interfaith event ‘Tread Lightly on this Earth – Exploring Food, Faith & Living Sustainably’ Read More …
Love, Live & Forgive this Christmas This is the Junior Peacemakers message being shared on 70 buses across Birmingham this Christmas for four weeks from the 10th December 2018. ‘Junior Peacemakers’ is a collaboration between two of our projects Peacemakers Read More …
A message from ecobirmingham (formerly Northfield Ecocentre) In the UK 7.7 billion plastic water bottles are used each year, with the average person in the UK now using 150 plastic water bottles every year – that’s more than three a Read More …
Chris Martin, Clerk to Central England Quakers’ Low Carbon Committment Forum, reports on a national event which highlighted the latest research and ideas for action on climate change. This report is an account of my personal experience of the European Read More …
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 …
Claire Bowman, Ecumenical and Interfaith Coordinator for Central England Quakers reports on a recent event in Birmingham: ‘Invest in Peace’. On Tuesday October 30th amid tight security I attended an extraordinary event at the Singers Hill Synagogue in Birmingham, organised Read More …
A message from ecobirmingham (formerly Northfield Ecocentre) about a photography project for young people: Green Lens is a project that invites young people across Birmingham to voice the green issues that matter to them, locally or globally, through the medium Read More …
Quaker scientist, Richard Tuckett, has just had two peer-reviewed papers published on the science of greenhouse gases and climate change. The first paper is based on Richard’s academic career as a high-resolution gas-phase spectroscopist studying upper atmosphere ‘greenhouse gas’ molecules. Read More …
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 …