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• Honour your heritage by ending investment in arms to Israel, Quakers urge Barclays Bank

  9 May 2024

  As Barclays Bank holds its AGM on Thursday, 9 May, Quakers urge them to stop investing in companies supplying arms to Israel.

• Joint statement on Rafah incursion

  8 May 2024

  Quakers in Britain has joined 30 other charities calling on the UK government to take meaningful action to stop any further attacks on Rafah by the Israeli military.

• Quakers join parliamentary discussion on suspending arms exports to Israel

  1 May 2024

  Quakers joined a roundtable discussion on suspending arms exports to Israel, hosted by Brendan O'Hara MP in parliament this week.

• Quakers celebrate life of philanthropist and Kindertransport passenger Alfred Bader

  30 April 2024

  Quakers and others gathered to commemorate the 100^th birthday of scientist and philanthropist Alfred Bader at Friends House last weekend.

• Quakers outraged at “performatively cruel” Rwanda Act

  23 April 2024

  Quakers have joined 250 others in writing to the prime minister to express their outrage at the passage of the misleadingly named Safety of Rwanda Act.

• Major exhibition celebrates four hundred years of Quakerism

  23 April 2024

  To mark four centuries of Quakerism, Quakers in Britain has contributed to a major exhibition at the Quaker Tapestry Museum in Kendal.

• Quakers offer schools funded opportunity to become centre of excellence in conflict resolution

  17 April 2024

  Secondary schools in England and Wales are being offered a funded opportunity to develop peer-led conflict resolution by Quakers in Britain.

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