During 2021 CEQ Climate Emergency Action has been supporting the relaunch of Footsteps’ Small Footsteps programme for youngsters aged 8-13. This has been both with the offer of financial support from the CEQ CEA budget and efforts by individual Quakers. Read More …
Anne Giles of Bournville Quakers, and Roderick Keefe of CEQ Outreach Committee are seeking some extra helpers for Heritage Open Day (HOD) on 11th September 2021: Bournville Quaker Meeting House has opened for the September Heritage Day very successfully for Read More …
Quaker Meetings are invited to join the Rise to the Moment relay from the G7 in Cornwall to COP26 in Glasgow. This November, world leaders are meeting in Glasgow for important climate negotiations (called COP26 – the 26th Conference of Read More …
CIGB (Churches and Industry Group Birmingham and Solihull) provides teams of Workplace Chaplains who visit people in their place of work to offer friendship and to listen. Their support is unconditional, non-judgemental, independent and confidential. Quakers are represented on the Read More …
Churches Together in Birmingham City Centre are offering a virtual ‘walk of witness’ this Good Friday, reflecting on the Stations of the Cross. There are details on the website of the Archdiocese of Birmingham, as well as a link to Read More …
After a year without our printed newsletter, Central England Quakers Communications Committee has produced a new edition of News from the Centre for February 2021. Barbara Groombridge, Convenor of CEQ Communications Committee writes: I am delighted to offer this Newsletter Read More …
For the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Quakers from Thirsk in Yorkshire have created this 15 minute reflection, Stillness Through Creation. If you’d like to join in locally, Birmingham Churches Together invite us to join 24 minutes of prayer Read More …
Barbara Forbes, Bull St Quaker and board-member of Church and Peace reports on their ongoing discussion on racism and peacework: Following on from the Church and Peace (C&P) September zoom conversation on why racism must be a priority for peace Read More …
Coventry Quaker David Fish reflects on the service of remembrance for Hiroshima, on 6th August 2020. Coventry Quakers have co-ordinated this remembrance for 34 years now – Coventry Quaker Ann Farr asked if I remembered that in the early years Read More …
Eleanor Nesbitt recently published an article in Coventry Society News: ‘The Coventry Quakers’. The article covers a brief history of the Religious Society of Friends in Coventry, from George Fox’s visits to the city in the 17th century through to Read More …