Our religious experience leads us to place a special value on truth, equality, simplicity and peace. These testimonies, as they are known, are lived rather than written. They lead Quakers to translate their faith into action by working locally and globally for social justice, to support peacemakers and care for the environment.
Central England Area Quaker Meeting is a registered charity and each year is required to file the Trustees Annual Report and Accounts with the Charity Commission. A printed copy of this is available for the CEQ office or it can be accessed online on the Charity Commission website. Read the Annual report for 2023 below:
Our Witness
Central England Quakers have established several professional organisations and volunteer-led committees to help live out our Testimonies to simplicity, truth & integrity, equality and peace.
Peacemakers
Peacemakers work with people in different types of communities to create peace through exploring, learning about and practising peace. They have a particular emphasis on working with schools.
Peacemakers want to equip people in all walks of life to deal peacefully and creatively with the inevitable conflicts that arise for all of us.
Peace Hub
Encouraging Action for Peace.
Peace Hub believes that a just & peaceful world is possible if we work together: if that sounds like a world you’d like to be a part of, they’d love to connect with you!
Asylum Group
Quakers believe that there is ‘that of God in everyone’: this leads us to work to welcome those seeking sanctuary into our community, and to challenge the ‘hostile environment’ for refugees and asylum seekers in the UK.
Climate Emergency Action
CEQ Climate Emergency Action (CEA) helps Quakers in Central England to respond to the climate emergency in our own lives, as a community, and by working for systemic change.
Community Justice Group
CJG is for Friends who are actively involved in community justice issues, including local Quakers involved in chaplaincy for the criminal justice system, policing, the NHS and retail. There are also those working on ecumenical dialogue, and with asylum seekers and refugees.
Quaker Christmas Parcels
Christmas can be a difficult time for families of people in prison, asylum seekers & refugees, and other vulnerable people. Quaker Christmas Parcels seeks to offer support and friendship at this time by providing food parcels.
Other Quaker Projects
There are several other projects in the Central England region that are run fully or partly by Quakers, but are not formally part of Central England Area Meeting
ecobirmingham - ecobirmingham is a charity that aims to help create a sustainable city, inspire positive change and build stronger communities. Created in 2009 as Northfield Ecocentre (a project of Central England Quakers) ecobirmingham became an independent charity in July 2018.
Oak Tree House - Oak Tree House’s purpose is to provide a caring residential community offering shelter and fulfillment, informed by Quaker values, to Friends and others in their retirement.
Woodlands Quaker Home - Woodlands Quaker Home is a non-profit home for older people owned and managed by Quakers, two and a half miles from Wolverhampton City Centre.
Redditch Friends Housing Association - Redditch Friends Housing Association is a small family friendly, community based charity, established in 1973. The Housing Association grew from the zeal of a small number of Quakers, who were driven at that time to address the needs of single Read More ...
Woodbrooke - A Quaker study centre in Selly Oak, Birmingham. Woodbrooke’s learning programmes seek to support, inform and transform Quakers and others as individuals and communities.
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