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Central England Quakers is a group of Quaker Meetings within the Midlands: including the cities of Birmingham and Coventry, the Black Country, and the surrounding areas.  Join us for Meeting for Worship, and to experience friendship and community.

News

What Meeting for Worship means to us - Meeting for Worship is the bedrock of the Quaker way, but what does it means to us? This Quaker Week, we share some reflections from one group of Quakers in Central England. If you've not experienced Quaker worship before, this… Continue Reading
Coventry Meeting Welcomes - Coventry Quaker Meeting share a new video this Quaker week, and have appeared in BBC news as they receive a grant to help make their Meeting House more accessible. Coventry Quakers have produced a video welcoming people to their Local… Continue Reading
Christmas Parcel Appeal 2025 - The Quaker Christmas Parcels Appeal for 2025 has now been launched. Every year, Quaker Christmas Parcels provides food packages for families known by the Probation Service to be in great need, and also to asylum seekers and refugees through Quaker… Continue Reading
Equipping for Ministry - Equipping for Ministry (also known as EfM) is a two-year learning journey offered by Woodbrooke, for Friends who want to deepen their understanding of Quakerism and become more confident in living Spirit-led lives within the Quaker community and the wider… Continue Reading
Local Development Worker Newsletter - Hilary Topp, Local Development Worker (LDW) for our region shares her latest newsletter. Continue Reading

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Events

  • First Aid for Quakers 11/10/2025 at The Priory Rooms, Birmingham. Additional spaces availabe, please book – This is a one day Emergency First Aid Course for people active within Local Quaker Meetings or Central England Area Meeting (not the general public). Gain confidence in what to do in a first aid situation at a Quaker Meeting. Completion of the course will lead to a qualification as…

  • Meeting for Learning "Who are the Quakers?" 12/10/2025 at Bull St Quaker Meeting House, Birmingham. – Join Bull St Quakers to watch a recorded lecture by Ben Pink Dandelion "Who are the Quakers?" followed by open discussion. Ben Pink Dandelion is a tutor for Woodbrooke, an academic theologian and a committee Quaker.  He gave the 2014 Swarthmore Lecture. Friends from other meetings are welcome. Meeting for…

  • Midlands Green Quakers 14/10/2025 Online. – Midlands Green Quakers is a network of Friends from across the region who share a concern about the climate and ecological emergency. Sessions take place on Zoom on the second Tuesday of the month from 11am to 12pm. The focus is on supporting our climate justice and sustainability activities. Together…

  • Friends' Cinema Friends' Cinema 18/10/2025 at Barnt Green & Redditch Quaker Meeting House, Barnt Green. A popular comic ballet danced to an arrangement of fifty-five popular French airs. – Barnt Green & Redditch Quakers invite you to join them at their monthly film showing. All welcome. This month: A popular comic ballet danced to an arrangement of fifty-five popular French airs. Sir Frederick Ashton's (The Wayward Daughter), the sunniest and funniest of ballets, is on our screen. Most famous…

  • Area Meeting October 2025 Area Meeting October 2025 23/10/2025 at Bournville Quaker Meeting House, Bournville Birmingham. – Our Area Business Meeting is a special type of Meeting for Worship used to make decisions: from how Quakers spend our money, to adopting a Concern. Agenda items deadline 8th October. Anyone who is part of our Quaker community can attend these meetings and take part in decision making: if…

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