Can any Local Meetings, Area or Local Meeting committees or groups make use of a tent with banners, display boards, tables and chairs housed in a car-tow trailer? Warwick Quakers no longer use their Quaker Display Trailer and it needs 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 …
Barnt Green and Redditch Meeting continue to host regular film showings on the third Friday of each month. Barnt Green Friends are also interested to see if there is the demand for films and shared meals on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day when many people are alone. Read More …
The national Quaker Outreach Network meets every month on Zoom to bring together everyone interested in outreach. Led by Naomi Major, Witness & Collaboration staff member at Friends House, these sessions are a chance to share insights and experiences and Read More …
Quakers in Central England marked Quaker Week with a series of climate vigils. A regular silent vigil is held by Quakers every Wednesday 1.30 – 1.45pm outside St Phillips Cathedral (aka Pidgeon Park), central Birmingham. It is timed so that Read More …
Quaker Support for Climate Action (QS4CA), which evolved from the Big One protests in April, is inviting Quakers across the country to hold vigils during Quaker Week. The call to hold climate vigils reflects the theme of this year’s Quaker 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 Week (in England) is 23 September to 1 October 2023. It runs every year to help Quaker meetings to attract new people and share their faith. The theme this year is ‘Simple. Radical. Spiritual.’ It is intended to intrigue 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 …
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 …
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