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UK's climate finance cuts betray the world's poorest, say Quakers
11 March 2026
Quakers in Britain are deeply disappointed at government plans to slash funding that protects nature and tackles climate change in the world's poorest countries.
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Quakers take historic step
11 March 2026
Quakers in Britain this weekend brought their Meeting for Sufferings – a body that has met for more than 350 years – to an end as they move into a simplified structure for modern times.
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Quaker Meeting House raided by Metropolitan Police again
6 March 2026
Yesterday evening, 5 March 2026, for the second time in a year, the Metropolitan Police raided a Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists who were meeting there, on the grounds that they were conspiring to commit a criminal act.
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Westminster Quaker Meeting House suffers second Met Police raid
6 March 2026
For the second time in less than a year, Metropolitan Police officers have raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House, arresting young activists.
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Children’s art for peace in Quaker central offices
4 March 2026
Eighty years after the Korean peninsula was divided by war, an exhibition of drawings by children on both sides of the divide is on show in Quaker central offices, London.
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UK should work for peace not war in the Middle East, Quakers say
2 March 2026
Quakers in Britain have called on the UK government to focus on building a just and sustainable peace in the Middle East.