Beth Follini
@bethfollini.bsky.social
Quaker, feminist, carer for husband w/ Advanced Parkinson’s, Londoner, orginially from Nova Scotia. Fundraising Manager for Quakers in Britain & coaching women trying to decide whether to have children or not. http://www.ticktockcoaching.co.uk
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Do Quakers do Christmas? Traditionally, Quakers don't celebrate special days, but today the picture is more complex.
Rhiannon Grant shares four questions she asks herself when thinking about whether and how to participate in Christmas activities.
Rhiannon Grant shares four questions she asks herself when thinking about whether and how to participate in Christmas activities.
Is your Christmas simple, radical, spiritual?
Rhiannon Grant reflects on how Quaker traditions and testimony influence how she marks the festive season.
quaker.org.uk
December 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Do Quakers do Christmas? Traditionally, Quakers don't celebrate special days, but today the picture is more complex.
Rhiannon Grant shares four questions she asks herself when thinking about whether and how to participate in Christmas activities.
Rhiannon Grant shares four questions she asks herself when thinking about whether and how to participate in Christmas activities.
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A Quaker who recently completed a 700-mile climate pilgrimage has said that continued commitment to “No New Oil" is all that matters in the face of a 26-month sentence.
Quaker’s stand for “No New Oil” continues despite harsh JSO sentence
A Quaker who recently completed a 700-mile climate pilgrimage has said that continued commitment to “No New Oil” is all that matters in the face of a 26-month sentence.
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December 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
A Quaker who recently completed a 700-mile climate pilgrimage has said that continued commitment to “No New Oil" is all that matters in the face of a 26-month sentence.
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“I also have a newfound appreciation for moments of calm. I’m more aware of the clarity that stillness can bring, and I’m grateful that I found the Quakers when I needed them most.”
Read this lovely account of one person’s path to Quakerism.
Read this lovely account of one person’s path to Quakerism.
A moment that changed me: My unbearable grief kept growing – until I found solace in a silent community
After my dad died, I tried to cope by keeping busy: a day job, a side hustle, socialising and working out. But I kept bursting into tears in public. At a Quaker meeting, it was as if someone had turne...
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December 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
“I also have a newfound appreciation for moments of calm. I’m more aware of the clarity that stillness can bring, and I’m grateful that I found the Quakers when I needed them most.”
Read this lovely account of one person’s path to Quakerism.
Read this lovely account of one person’s path to Quakerism.
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Did you know as a carer you are entitled to free flu jabs?
Contact your GP or local pharmacy and get your jab booked in!
For more information:
https://www.carersuk.org/help-and-advice/your-health-and-wellbeing/flu-jabs/
Contact your GP or local pharmacy and get your jab booked in!
For more information:
https://www.carersuk.org/help-and-advice/your-health-and-wellbeing/flu-jabs/
November 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Did you know as a carer you are entitled to free flu jabs?
Contact your GP or local pharmacy and get your jab booked in!
For more information:
https://www.carersuk.org/help-and-advice/your-health-and-wellbeing/flu-jabs/
Contact your GP or local pharmacy and get your jab booked in!
For more information:
https://www.carersuk.org/help-and-advice/your-health-and-wellbeing/flu-jabs/
@lbc.co.uk So why are Ukrainian refugees totally accepted and allowed to work now? I think a lot of this comes down to racism. We have no safe routes for most refugees - mostly brown and black refugees. Yet we do for Ukrainian and people from HK?
November 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
@lbc.co.uk So why are Ukrainian refugees totally accepted and allowed to work now? I think a lot of this comes down to racism. We have no safe routes for most refugees - mostly brown and black refugees. Yet we do for Ukrainian and people from HK?
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The Nuffield Trust has published a report entitled, ‘All or nothing? Access and variation in NHS Continuing Healthcare’.
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November 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The Nuffield Trust has published a report entitled, ‘All or nothing? Access and variation in NHS Continuing Healthcare’.
Read More: buff.ly/xEW2XHZ
@nuffieldtrust.org.uk
Read More: buff.ly/xEW2XHZ
@nuffieldtrust.org.uk
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Dr Clarissa Giebel and Emma Williams from the University of Liverpool are looking for participants living with a neurodegenerative condition or caring for a family member or friend with a neurodegenerative condition, to take part in research.
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@liverpooluni.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Dr Clarissa Giebel and Emma Williams from the University of Liverpool are looking for participants living with a neurodegenerative condition or caring for a family member or friend with a neurodegenerative condition, to take part in research.
Read More: buff.ly/mJuyogH
@liverpooluni.bsky.social
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@liverpooluni.bsky.social
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We’ve joined almost 300 organisations in an urgent plea to politicians and the UK government to stop scapegoating the country’s human rights framework.
Quakers join call for “full-throated defence” of UK human rights protections
Almost 300 organisations, including Quakers in Britain, have issued an urgent plea to politicians and the UK government to stop scapegoating the UK’s human rights framework.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
We’ve joined almost 300 organisations in an urgent plea to politicians and the UK government to stop scapegoating the country’s human rights framework.
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#HaliSky - join me tonight, 7pm, at the Halifax Central Library. Gillian Turnbull, head of the King's MFA program, and I will be discussing my novel, "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic". Very seasonally appropriate book - ghosts! attics! tarot! cozy bookstores!
October 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
#HaliSky - join me tonight, 7pm, at the Halifax Central Library. Gillian Turnbull, head of the King's MFA program, and I will be discussing my novel, "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic". Very seasonally appropriate book - ghosts! attics! tarot! cozy bookstores!
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Quakers in Britain have long called for a just transition, which puts justice and equality at the heart of climate solutions.
We welcome the first ever national plan to recruit the workers needed for clean energy, which aims to train 400,000 people by 2030.
We welcome the first ever national plan to recruit the workers needed for clean energy, which aims to train 400,000 people by 2030.
Clean energy jobs a step in the right direction, Quakers say
Quakers in Britain has welcomed the first ever national plan to recruit the workers needed for clean energy.
www.quaker.org.uk
October 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Quakers in Britain have long called for a just transition, which puts justice and equality at the heart of climate solutions.
We welcome the first ever national plan to recruit the workers needed for clean energy, which aims to train 400,000 people by 2030.
We welcome the first ever national plan to recruit the workers needed for clean energy, which aims to train 400,000 people by 2030.
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open.substack.com/pub/rorycell... Biggest ever audit of Parkinson’s in the UK says there’s a diagnosis crisis with a shortage of neurologists leaving thousands waiting up to 5 years to see a specialist
Parkinson's - the diagnosis crisis
UK's neurologist shortage continues to bite, says biggest PD audit
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October 23, 2025 at 6:26 AM
open.substack.com/pub/rorycell... Biggest ever audit of Parkinson’s in the UK says there’s a diagnosis crisis with a shortage of neurologists leaving thousands waiting up to 5 years to see a specialist
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Quakers believe there is “that of God in everyone”, and that violence can never be justified.
As a result, many Quakers have mixed feelings about Remembrance Day. Some wonder if military involvement in the day risks celebrating rather than commemorating.
Judith Baker explores this in our new blog:
As a result, many Quakers have mixed feelings about Remembrance Day. Some wonder if military involvement in the day risks celebrating rather than commemorating.
Judith Baker explores this in our new blog:
Remembering, cooperating, and working for change
A blog with personal reflections on the meaning of remembrance and how Quakers can participate.
www.quaker.org.uk
October 16, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Quakers believe there is “that of God in everyone”, and that violence can never be justified.
As a result, many Quakers have mixed feelings about Remembrance Day. Some wonder if military involvement in the day risks celebrating rather than commemorating.
Judith Baker explores this in our new blog:
As a result, many Quakers have mixed feelings about Remembrance Day. Some wonder if military involvement in the day risks celebrating rather than commemorating.
Judith Baker explores this in our new blog:
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Check out this radio segment on Quaker Week. Lizzi Rawlinson-Mills talks to Babs Michel about the power of silent worship to ground us and help us deal with crises and events that can be overwhelming.
The discussion starts from 14:50, listen here:
The discussion starts from 14:50, listen here:
Babs Michel on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire - 05/10/2025 - BBC Sounds
Join Babs for a relaxed and spiritual start to your Sunday.
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October 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Check out this radio segment on Quaker Week. Lizzi Rawlinson-Mills talks to Babs Michel about the power of silent worship to ground us and help us deal with crises and events that can be overwhelming.
The discussion starts from 14:50, listen here:
The discussion starts from 14:50, listen here:
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Last week we held our first "Radical Hearts, Open Minds" meeting.
The first session produced lots of creative ideas about how our Quaker communities could flourish and thrive in the latter part of this decade and into the next.
www.quaker.org.uk/communities/...
The first session produced lots of creative ideas about how our Quaker communities could flourish and thrive in the latter part of this decade and into the next.
www.quaker.org.uk/communities/...
Radical Hearts, Open Minds: the story so far
Find out about Quakers and how our faith translates into action.
www.quaker.org.uk
September 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Last week we held our first "Radical Hearts, Open Minds" meeting.
The first session produced lots of creative ideas about how our Quaker communities could flourish and thrive in the latter part of this decade and into the next.
www.quaker.org.uk/communities/...
The first session produced lots of creative ideas about how our Quaker communities could flourish and thrive in the latter part of this decade and into the next.
www.quaker.org.uk/communities/...
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How can we share knowledge and insight across generations within our communities?
Read and watch searching conversations on faith and action between young Quakers and older members of the Welsh Quaker community.
Read the full blog, and access our new film, here:
Read and watch searching conversations on faith and action between young Quakers and older members of the Welsh Quaker community.
Read the full blog, and access our new film, here:
You can always ask me: intergenerational conversations about faith
Extract of an intergenerational conversation about Quaker faith
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September 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
How can we share knowledge and insight across generations within our communities?
Read and watch searching conversations on faith and action between young Quakers and older members of the Welsh Quaker community.
Read the full blog, and access our new film, here:
Read and watch searching conversations on faith and action between young Quakers and older members of the Welsh Quaker community.
Read the full blog, and access our new film, here:
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Yesterday, Quakers led a walk of witness to arms company HQs, speaking out against those who profit from war and suffering.
We also joined with Pax Christi for a silent candlelit vigil outside the Excel Centre, where the DSEI arms fair is taking place.
📸 Michael Preston for Quakers in Britain
We also joined with Pax Christi for a silent candlelit vigil outside the Excel Centre, where the DSEI arms fair is taking place.
📸 Michael Preston for Quakers in Britain
September 9, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Yesterday, Quakers led a walk of witness to arms company HQs, speaking out against those who profit from war and suffering.
We also joined with Pax Christi for a silent candlelit vigil outside the Excel Centre, where the DSEI arms fair is taking place.
📸 Michael Preston for Quakers in Britain
We also joined with Pax Christi for a silent candlelit vigil outside the Excel Centre, where the DSEI arms fair is taking place.
📸 Michael Preston for Quakers in Britain
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As part of the No Faith in War day, 200 people joined our Meeting for Worship, creating a grounded space in the face of the violence embodied by the DSEI arms fair.
Tomorrow, join us to hand in a demand to stop DSEI. Meeting Waterloo train station, 11am: tinyurl.com/stop-dsei
📸 Michael Preston
Tomorrow, join us to hand in a demand to stop DSEI. Meeting Waterloo train station, 11am: tinyurl.com/stop-dsei
📸 Michael Preston
September 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
As part of the No Faith in War day, 200 people joined our Meeting for Worship, creating a grounded space in the face of the violence embodied by the DSEI arms fair.
Tomorrow, join us to hand in a demand to stop DSEI. Meeting Waterloo train station, 11am: tinyurl.com/stop-dsei
📸 Michael Preston
Tomorrow, join us to hand in a demand to stop DSEI. Meeting Waterloo train station, 11am: tinyurl.com/stop-dsei
📸 Michael Preston
Loved this book by @christinamartin.bsky.social As a legacy fundraiser, I’m always on about making a will. (You can even make a will for free! www.quaker.org.uk/free-will-wr...) As someone writing a memoir about caring for my husband with Parkinson’s, I admired the book structure loads!
September 2, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Loved this book by @christinamartin.bsky.social As a legacy fundraiser, I’m always on about making a will. (You can even make a will for free! www.quaker.org.uk/free-will-wr...) As someone writing a memoir about caring for my husband with Parkinson’s, I admired the book structure loads!
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Patrick Stewart sketch: what has the ECHR ever done for us?
YouTube video by The Guardian
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August 27, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Quaker history is well known and intriguing. Rhiannon Grant shares how Quaker heritage can create a starting point for conversations about Quakers today.
www.quaker.org.uk/blog/still-h...
www.quaker.org.uk/blog/still-h...
Still here – making connections by exploring Quaker history
Rhiannon Grant shares how Quaker heritage can create a starting point for conversations about Quakers today.
www.quaker.org.uk
August 22, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Quaker history is well known and intriguing. Rhiannon Grant shares how Quaker heritage can create a starting point for conversations about Quakers today.
www.quaker.org.uk/blog/still-h...
www.quaker.org.uk/blog/still-h...
Jessica from Couples Therapy please leave Boris! Run don’t walk!
TV tonight: hit show Couples Therapy just keeps getting better
TV tonight: hit show Couples Therapy just keeps getting better
Dr Orna continues to offer fascinating insight as she helps clients. Plus: it’s the last visit to Reuben Owen’s farm. Here’s what to watch this evening
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August 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Jessica from Couples Therapy please leave Boris! Run don’t walk!
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Watch our new film to find out how Quaker communities in Britain are bringing people together and creating spaces of connection and community: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYJtrik8iJU
Everyone is welcome – learn more about Quaker communities and how you can be involved: www.quaker.org.uk/communities
Everyone is welcome – learn more about Quaker communities and how you can be involved: www.quaker.org.uk/communities
A space to connect, learn and build community
YouTube video by Quakers in Britain
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August 13, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Watch our new film to find out how Quaker communities in Britain are bringing people together and creating spaces of connection and community: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYJtrik8iJU
Everyone is welcome – learn more about Quaker communities and how you can be involved: www.quaker.org.uk/communities
Everyone is welcome – learn more about Quaker communities and how you can be involved: www.quaker.org.uk/communities
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One year on from the racially targeted violence in the summer of 2024, a major new report argues that the UK remains vulnerable to further unrest. But this is an issue that everyone, everywhere can help address.
Find out how Quakers are working on peacebuilding and bringing communities together:
Find out how Quakers are working on peacebuilding and bringing communities together:
Faith organisations can strengthen communities: findings from The state of us
Review of The state of us with lessons for Quaker communities.
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August 11, 2025 at 12:24 PM
One year on from the racially targeted violence in the summer of 2024, a major new report argues that the UK remains vulnerable to further unrest. But this is an issue that everyone, everywhere can help address.
Find out how Quakers are working on peacebuilding and bringing communities together:
Find out how Quakers are working on peacebuilding and bringing communities together:
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Nuclear weapons must never be used again.
Quakers in Britain Recording Clerk Paul Parker and other Quakers took part in an ecumenical peace gathering at the Faslane naval base.
Faith leaders from across Scotland called for an end to nuclear weapons.
Quakers in Britain Recording Clerk Paul Parker and other Quakers took part in an ecumenical peace gathering at the Faslane naval base.
Faith leaders from across Scotland called for an end to nuclear weapons.
Quakers join Faslane vigil against nuclear weapons
The 'No to Nuclear Weapons' ecumenical peace gathering marked the 80th anniversary of the horrific nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
www.quaker.org.uk
August 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Nuclear weapons must never be used again.
Quakers in Britain Recording Clerk Paul Parker and other Quakers took part in an ecumenical peace gathering at the Faslane naval base.
Faith leaders from across Scotland called for an end to nuclear weapons.
Quakers in Britain Recording Clerk Paul Parker and other Quakers took part in an ecumenical peace gathering at the Faslane naval base.
Faith leaders from across Scotland called for an end to nuclear weapons.
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First heard about these through the @goodgrieffest.bsky.social programme. Glad they are spreading.
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London grief rave helps mourners celebrate loved ones
The event aims to allow people to celebrate and remember those they have lost, and help process grief.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 5, 2025 at 8:54 AM
First heard about these through the @goodgrieffest.bsky.social programme. Glad they are spreading.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...