New Afternoon Quaker Meetings at Sutton Coldfield
You are welcome to join Sutton Coldfield Quakers for an afternoon Meeting for Worship on the fourth Sunday of each month (3-4pm). This is instead of the 10:30am meeting. Read More …
Category: Outreach
Treading Lightly
Several Central England Quakers were very involved with Footsteps’ recent interfaith event ‘Tread Lightly on this Earth – Exploring Food, Faith & Living Sustainably’ Read More …
Invest in Peace – Birmingham 2018
Claire Bowman, Ecumenical and Interfaith Coordinator for Central England Quakers reports on a recent event in Birmingham: ‘Invest in Peace’. On Tuesday October 30th amid tight security I attended an extraordinary event at the Singers Hill Synagogue in Birmingham, organised Read More …
Look out for the new printed newsletter
Each local meeting in the area should be receiving some copies of ‘News from Central England Quakers’ a new printed version of our Area Meeting newsletter. We aim to produce this style of newsletter every 2-3 months, featuring some of Read More …
Council of Christians & Jews Autumn Programme
The Council of Christians & Jews (Birmingham branch) have announced their autumn programme. Quakers are represented on the group, and the September event is of particular interest to Quakers: Thursday September 27th, 7.45 pm, Woodbrooke Quaker Studies Centre, International friendship Read More …
Birmingham schools rush to seek School of Sanctuary status
When the then Home Secretary Theresa May said in 2012 that “The aim is to create, here in Britain, a really hostile environment for illegal immigrants” she may not have foreseen that her words would result in a cultural environment Read More …
Birmingham City Centre Churches Together
Claire Bowman, Ecumenical & Interfaith Coordinator for Central Engalnd Quakers reports on the latest meeting woith Birmingham City Churches together: On Thursday the 19th of June I met with church leaders from other Birmingham city centre churches on behalf of Read More …
Volunteers needed: interfaith school speaking scheme
A request for Quakers to volunteer with The Faith & Belief Forum, as part of their interfaith school workshops: Hello, my name is Jaishree, I’ve been part a freelance trainer at The West Midlands Quaker Peace and Education Project since Read More …
Quakers in the Media
Eleanor Nesbitt from Coventry Meeting spoke from a Quaker perspective on Radio 4’s ‘ Thought for the Day’ programme on Thursday 19th July. You can listen again to Eleanor online, or download this episode of the ‘Thought for the Day’ Read More …
‘A Future for All…’ conference
‘A Future for All … Implementing the Christian imperative to care for our World’, held on Saturday 14 July 2018, was the first ecumenical Eco Church conference and was organised by the Central England Quaker Low Carbon Commitment forum and Read More …