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 …
A group of Quakers came together ahead of Area Meeting in January for an activity organised by the newly revived CEQ Asylum Group. Friends made ‘valentines’ cards to send to MPs, with messages such as “show your heart for refugees” Read More …
Quakers have had a Meeting House in Coventry from the 1600s. The current Meeting House was built in 1953. Our main room is on the first floor, making access a challenge. Can you support our building improvement plan? We plan Read More …
Quakers in Britain are part of the Together With Refugees (TWR) 🧡 coalition and your Area Meeting Asylum Group would like to encourage us to join in the TWR activities around Valentine’s Day as part of their campaigning up to and beyond the Read More …
Since the recent article in Roundabout Central England about this work, Stourbridge Meeting has just received a further encouraging report from the Ibanda Literacy Schools in Western Uganda which it has supported for many years, with help from other Local Read More …
Eco Church is a scheme for churches in England and Wales. To gain an Eco Church award, churches must complete a unique online Eco Survey about how they are caring for God’s Earth in different areas of their life and 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 …
Barbara Forbes (Bull Street Quaker and QARN member) invites Central England Friends to be part of a revitalised Asylum Group. It will not have escaped your notice that the government is pursuing an increasingly hostile agenda towards asylum-seekers, using inflammatory language Read More …
At recent CEQ events the need to build fellowship by worshipping with other Meetings has been a recurring topic of discussion. Elders and Pastoral Friends Support Group would like to suggest an informal intervisitation plan in response to this need. 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 …
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