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 …
Several Central England Quakers travelled down to the Excel Centre in London to witness and protest against this year’s Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) biennial arms fair. Coventry Friend Pete Duckworth reflects on his experiences alongside Maggie McHale and 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 …
Barbara Forbes invites Quakers in Central England to support a renewed Asylum Group: For many years from 2006 onwards, Warwickshire/Central England Area Meeting had an Asylum Group which (as agreed at Area Meeting) was a self-selecting group of Friends with Read More …
Our project Peacemakers (West Midlands Quaker Peace Education Project) present their annual report, detailing their activities educating for peace in 2022, including: “2022 had its challenges, but the collaboration and hard work of many people meant it was a successful Read More …
John Lampen from Stourbridge Meeting reflects on the recent Annual Meeting of the Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA): QCEA seeks to influence policy in areas of concern to Quakers – currently migration, climate justice, EU support for the arms 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 …
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 …
Hot on the heels of Peacemakers, our project Peace Hub present their annual report and accounts for 2021: “In 2021 Peace Hub continued to respond to challenging times, supporting the existing movements for peace and social justice during the lockdown, Read More …