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 …
At Central England Area Meeting in July we were asked to get talking about diversity with three prompts. The queries are: In what ways is your meeting (or committee or group) already diverse? In what ways could it be more Read More …
Due to work on the premises, Selly Oak Meeting House will be closed from August 20th to September 7th 2018. Please note that Meeting for Worship will not be held at Selly Oak Meeting House on Sunday 26th August and Read More …