National Interfaith Week took place from Saturday 9th to Sunday 17th November 2019. As part of the week, Bull St Quaker meeting held an event ‘Towards a Better Understanding of Israel and Palestine’ with a film showing of ‘Two Sided Read More …
We hope that you enjoyed the festive period – thanks for your patience whilst our website administrator was away. The newsfeed emails will be coming out each Friday morning, as usual – so please submit your news and events relating Read More …
Our project Peace Hub recently celebrated it’s 5th anniversary with a peace conference titled ‘Safety in Numbers?’ On Saturday 2nd November 2019, around 20 people came together in Birmingham to explore the question: ‘how can we rethink security for a Read More …
Dates and venues have been agreed for Central England Quakers Area Business Meetings in 2020: Image: Friends Meeting at Cambridge, MA.
For several years Coventry Quakers and Coventry’s Lord Mayor’s Peace committee have organised a memorial for Hiroshima Day on 6th August. People gather in the Chapel of Unity and the Nave of Coventry Cathedral to remember the dropping of the Read More …
Central England Quakers’ branch Peacemakers (West Midlands Quaker Peace Education Project) report on a special event held with young people: As part of our Minus Violence Plus Peace Project we worked with groups of young people to provoke discussions around Read More …
Coventry Quaker Vicky Cowell explains how Roots of Resistance is opposing the arms trade, and how you can get involved: Roots of Resistance is a community of Friends building a creative, vibrant and radical Quaker response to the Defence and Read More …
Central England Quakers’ Children & Young People’s Committee have announced a programme of events for younger Quakers of a whole range of ages. You can check on upcoming CYP events on the Children & Young People page of this website: Read More …
A Qur’anic memorial service for those who died in the terrorist attacks on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand March 15th 2019. A dozen Quakers from four Central England Local Meetings joined mourners at the Bahu Trust mosque in Balsall Read More …
A message from ecobirmingham (formerly Northfield Ecocentre) about a photography project for young people: Green Lens is a project that invites young people across Birmingham to voice the green issues that matter to them, locally or globally, through the medium Read More …