Quaker Earthcare Gathering 24-27 October This is a residential weekend at The Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick, Derbyshire organised by Quakers in Britain, Living Witness, Quaker Support for Climate Action and others. Bookings are open with the aim of filling places Read More …
Jo Hindley reflects on a day of creative witness and protest at an arms fair in neighbouring Shropshire. An estimated 200 people from anti arms trade groups including Quakers gathered in fresh snow and bright sunshine early on Wednesday 20th Read More …
The SDSC Arms Fair is taking place in Telford in November. In witness against this event, Peace Pilgrimage, supported by our project Peace Hub, Stourbridge Quaker Meeting and several individual Friends, are walking a pilgrimage for peace. Pilgrims set off Read More …
The Week of Prayer for World Peace starts this Sunday (15th October). As part of this year’s events, Lynn and Dave Morris of Stourbridge Meeting have been awarded the Wilson/Hinkes Peace Award. This Award was established by the Week of Read More …
A number of Central England Quakers joined the National Day of support for ‘Defend our Juries’ on Monday 25th September. Quakers held placards outside Birmingham Crown Court affirming the legal precedent that ‘jurors have an absolute right to acquit a defendant Read More …
6th August marks the anniversary of the nuclear attack on Hiroshima (and on Nagasaki three days later). It’s a day to remember the hundreds of thousands who were killed or injured, and to say ‘never again’ to the use of Read More …
Pete Duckworth of Coventry Meeting reports on a protest held by Quakers and others against sewage dumping by Severn Trent (the water supplier covering all of Central England). On Friday 7th July seven Coventry Friends joined over 50 protesters from Read More …
Barbara Forbes invites Quakers in Central England to support a renewed Asylum Group: For many years from 2006 onwards, Warwickshire/Central England Area Meeting had an Asylum Group which (as agreed at Area Meeting) was a self-selecting group of Friends with Read More …
John Lampen from Stourbridge Meeting reflects on the recent Annual Meeting of the Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA): QCEA seeks to influence policy in areas of concern to Quakers – currently migration, climate justice, EU support for the arms Read More …
Mina Tilt, Treasurer of the Quaker Christmas Parcels Committee, invites Friends to support the appeal and parcel packing for 2022. Quaker Christmas Parcels first distributed food to the families of prisoners in December 1963. As we enter our 60th year Read More …