Peter Doubtfire of Young Friends General Meeting (part of Britain Yearly Meeting) reports on the EMEYF Gathering in Russia in April 2019 25 young adult Quakers and 10 children gathered in the village of Peski near St Petersburg for...
At the 2019 annual meeting of QUIP (Quakers Uniting in Publications), Vanessa Julye and Natasha Zhuravenkova were appointed as co-clerks – cementing an important transatlantic collaboration. QUIP (www.quakerquip.com) began in 1983 and is now an international network of over...
This article first appeared in The Friend on 15 February 2018 under the title “A Russian tale”. It is reproduced here by permission. The picture is a view of Buzuluk, painted by Richard Kilbey who was a member of...
In 2016 Friends House Moscow supported a project to preserve the archive of documents belonging to Vladimir Chertkov, who was Tolstoy’s literary executor and the organiser of the Russian pacifist movement in the early 20th Century. The following article...
On Sunday 3 March 2019, Sergei Nikitin, former Director of Amnesty International in Russia and former staff member at Friends House Moscow, will talk about his experience as a human rights defender in Russia. The meeting at Lancaster Friends...
Disabled young adults in Dzerzhinsk are being helped to find a career. In October FHM Board members visited the project to find out how it is doing. (Reporting by Patricia Stewart.) The photo shows two young men who are...
2018 is the 200th anniversary of when the marshes around St Petersburg began to be drained by the Quaker Daniel Wheeler. When Tsar Alexander wanted to undertake this project, he contacted the Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain with...
Our Friend Natasha attended the 2018 conference of QUIP (Quakers Uniting in Publications). The theme of the conference was “Writing at the Edge: A look at the edges we encounter as writers and publishers“. It was held this year...
We were delighted to receive a grant from the BEARR Trust (www.bearr.org) for new work in the city of Dzerzhinsk, to help disabled young adults find a career. The project “My Route to Occupation” has both short term and...
Eleanor Barden, 24 February 1932 – 26 March 2018 A Memorial, by Sergei Nikitin Sad news has come from Northampton Quaker Meeting — Eleanor Barden is dead. I met Eleanor a very long time ago, 20 years ago. She...
