CEQ Peace Committee, and our project Peace Hub are supporting a new campaign Together With Refugees. Quakers are invited to show support by making and displaying orange hearts, and writing to MPs. The UK government is planning to introduce new Read More …
Quakers around our Area Meeting have been getting creative to highlight climate justice in the lead-up to the COP26 UN climate conference in November. Bournville Quakers have transformed the giant cedar tree in their grounds with a knitted cosy to Read More …
An invitation to share with 16-25 year olds in your Meetings or networks: Care about climate change? Like being creative? Want to make a difference? 16-25 years old? Join the poet and activist Matt Sowerby for two free eco-poetry workshops. Read More …
Quaker Meetings are invited to join the Rise to the Moment relay from the G7 in Cornwall to COP26 in Glasgow. This November, world leaders are meeting in Glasgow for important climate negotiations (called COP26 – the 26th Conference of Read More …
Our project Peace Hub will be reopening to the public on Tuesday 25th May 2021. The Hub will be open for you to drop in 11am-5pm Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays, for a cuppa and a friendly chat about the current Read More …
Over 30 people participated in an online event on Fair Tax Councils on 27th June 2020, organised by Central England Quakers Peace Committee and Peace Hub. John Sheldon chaired the event and introduced our speakers. Summary David Haslam (Church Action Read More …
Over 700 people of different faiths (including a number of Quakers from Central England) attended the No Faith in War protest against the DSEI arms fair in London on 3rd September. Pete Doubtfire, from our project Peace Hub, reflects on Read More …
Several Central England Quakers were very involved with Footsteps’ recent interfaith event ‘Tread Lightly on this Earth – Exploring Food, Faith & Living Sustainably’ Read More …
Love, Live & Forgive this Christmas This is the Junior Peacemakers message being shared on 70 buses across Birmingham this Christmas for four weeks from the 10th December 2018. ‘Junior Peacemakers’ is a collaboration between two of our projects Peacemakers Read More …
Show Someone you Care: Share a Smile 😀 Throughout 2017 Peacemakers (West Midlands Quaker Peace Education Project) and Peace Hub have collaborated to run a series of Junior Peacemakers workshops for schools. How can we build peace in Birmingham? …was Read More …