Although it feels like autumn has arrived, the Summer 2024 edition of Roundabout Central England has just been published – look out for physical copies available at your local meeting soon. These are great for outreach purposes, Friends who don’t Read More …
Opportunities to volunteer at Bournville Heritage Open day; with Restore as a befriender; and further afield with Quaker Voluntary Action. Can you help at Heritage Open Day? Bournville Meeting is opening again for Heritage Day on Saturday 14 September between Read More …
Stourbridge Meeting has copies of the original editions of George Fox’s Journal and Epistles, the Collected Works of William Penn, and Besse’s Sufferings of the People called Quakers, with a few other early Quaker books. If any other Meeting in Central Read More …
Update: Val Jenner explains more about this exciting project and how you can get involved: Is there any point in looking backwards? In looking at our history? In interrogating the accepted Quaker narratives and founding stories? There will always be Read More …
Quaker Founder George Fox will be 400 next year! The Quaker Arts Network (QAN) in partnership with BYM Children and Young People’s committee has launched a programme as part of the celebration of George Fox’s 400th anniversary in 2024. We Read More …
17th and 20th Century Quakers are being publicly commemorated though historic plaque schemes. On Thursday 22nd June a number of Hartshill Quakers joined other Friends from Leicestershire at Fenny Drayton Church for the unveiling of a plaque commemorating the significance Read More …
Quaker founder George Fox, was born in the Leicestershire village of Fenny Drayton, near to Hartshill Local Meeting and part of our Area Meeting, in 1624. For Quakers around the world, the 400th anniversary of his birth next year will Read More …
Bournville Quaker Meeting House will again be opening for Heritage Day, and we would be delighted to welcome Friends to join us as volunteers. There will be many hundreds of visitors, and some of them are interested to talk about Read More …
A new post from the Birmingham and Warwickshire Quakers archive project at the Library of Birmingham. “Quakers have a long history of campaigning for prison reform, with perhaps one of the most well-known 19th century reformers being Elizabeth Fry who Read More …
On 22nd June a green plaque will be unveiled remembering Quaker founder George Fox, who was born in the Leicestershire village of Fenny Drayton, near to Hartshill Local Meeting and part of our Area Meeting. Leicestershire County Council Green Plaques Read More …