Mina Tilt, Treasurer of the Quaker Christmas Parcels Committee, invites Friends to support the appeal and parcel packing for 2022. Quaker Christmas Parcels first distributed food to the families of prisoners in December 1963. As we enter our 60th year Read More …
Kate McNally of Woodbrooke is carrying out a survey of anti-racist work in Britain, as part of an Eva Koch scholarship. You can complete the survey online, it should take 10-15 mins and closes on 30th November 2022. Kate says: Read More …
CEQ Peace Committee are sending poppy kits to all local meetings in our area, with an invitation. Kits will be available to collect at Area Meeting on Saturday, so hopefully they will arrive at most meeting this Sunday. (If your Read More …
This week CEQ trustees approved the 2021 Trustees Annual Report and Accounts. This will be filed on the Charity Commission Website and is a public document which can be accessed by anyone wanting to know about our Area Meeting charity. Read More …
Our project Peace Hub have begun a new theme: Safe & Sound – how can we create security for everyone? Traditionally we see security as safety from threats. So often at the Hub, when we’re suggesting actions to support each Read More …
Leslie Denis (an American Quaker, based in France) shares her new book about two US Quaker suffragists who came to Birmingham in the 1910s: I am happy to announce the publication of my new book, Susanna and Alice: Quaker Rebels, Read More …
Many Friends will have already seen this year’s Swarthmore Lecture, but for those who haven’t it is availble as a video. There will be a chance to watch together at Cotteridge Meeting on Fri 2nd September. The Swarthmore Lecture takes Read More …
Final update, including six ways that Quaker Meetings can get involved. The Commonwealth Games will be held in Birmingham, with events also taking place in Coventry, Sandwell, Warwick and Wolverhampton, from Thursday 28 July to Monday 8 August 2022. Birmingham Read More …
Quakers are calling for and working towards a just solution to the climate crisis; with national and worldwide economies operating within ecological limits and upholding the wellbeing, dignity and equality of all. To support this work, Quakers in Britain and Read More …
This Refugee Week saw the return of Little Amal, a 3m high puppet which in 2021 undertook a journey from Syria to the UK, representing millions of child refugees worldwide. Earlier today (Thursday 23rd June) Little Amal travelled through Birmingham Read More …