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Facing the financial challenge around COVID-19

Updated 11 June 2020

Britain Yearly Meeting had a successful year financially in 2019, with exceptionally high legacy income and a strong performance from its conference and hospitality business at Friends House. Without legacies BYM's expenditure would have been more than its income. The public health crisis around COVID-19 now means that 2020 income will be significantly reduced.

Facing the financial challenge of Covid-19

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Quakers move major event online

Updated 12 June 2020

Quakers in Britain announce that their Yearly Meeting for this year will – for the first time − be held online, on Sunday 15 November.

Quakers move major event online

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Scotland is first UK country to ban smacking

Updated 10 November 2020

Quakers in Britain welcome the ban on parents smacking their children which has become law in Scotland. This is the first nation in the UK to outlaw physical punishment of under-16s. Quakers value all moves to decrease violence in society.

Scotland is first UK country to ban smacking

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Meeting houses remain closed

Updated 11 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.

Meeting houses remain closed

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Quakers join launch of Build Back Better campaign

Updated 11 June 2020

Quakers in Britain are pleased to be co-launching Build Back Better, a new campaign for a green and just recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.The campaign says let's not go back to normal.

Quakers join campaign to Build Back Better

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Quakers call for climate justice as global gathering launches year of action

Updated 12 November 2020

Quakers in Britain have joined more than 70 other organisations in the COP26 Coalition to launch “a year of climate mobilisation from the ground up".

Quakers call for climate justice as global gathering launches a year of action

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Communities of colour are over-policed and under-protected

Updated 5 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.

Communities of colour are over-policed and under-protected

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Changing lives by teaching nonviolence

Updated 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.

Changing lives by teaching nonviolence

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UK pension funds investing billions in nuclear weapons

Updated 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.

UK pension funds are investing billions in nuclear weapons

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Quakers' Yearly Meeting moves online

Updated 15 November 2020

More than a thousand Quakers successfully held their first Yearly Meeting online today, prevented from meeting face-to-face by the COVID-19 pandemic. Not since 1668 has anything – not even world wars – prevented Yearly Meeting, a time for Quakers to gather in stillness to listen to the promptings of love and truth.

Quakers' Yearly Meeting moves online