How the Truth has prospered at Cotteridge Meeting

The B30 Food Bank continues to use the meeting house twice a week for food distributions. We now employ a gardener to maintain the gardens at front and rear of the meeting house. We have a fortnightly newsletter circulated to all members and attenders. We have tea and chats amongst attenders after meeting for worship. We continue to have monthly coffee mornings which sends out cards to friends needing support. We have two meetings for learning each month led by members/attenders. We have occasional breakfast before meeting for worship. 

We have shared lunches monthly after meeting for worship. We have three small groups meeting throughout the year. We had a residential weekend at Purley Chase.  We hosted women from Hope House and Restore in two events of Craft & Tea at the meeting house.  We had talk about Food and Sustainability after worship and before shared lunch one month. We participated in the George Fox Pilgrimage in July, which attracted many local non-Quakers. When our warden resigned the meeting community rallied to assume the duties which were shared out over several friends. We have held several social events to help build cohesion of our meeting and reserve use of the meeting house on several Saturdays throughout the year for these.  Several of our members are active with Area Meeting, Yearly Meeting and Friends World Committee for Consultation. We organised a public meeting with Churches Together in B30 on Quaker Work in the World. We have worked through major changes in the management of the meeting house and changing use of the bungalow as a community.

A children’s group meets every Sunday during school term time. Children spend the first ten minutes in the main Meeting for Worship, then go into their own room, accompanied by adult Friends who have up to date DBS checks.

There is a gentle ramp up to the entrance and there are accessible toilet facilities in the Meeting House. There is a hearing loop in the main Meeting Room.

Room bookings can be made through our warden on 0121-449 0111 or by email:
cotteridgequakermeeting@gmail.com

Buses 11, 18, 19, 45, 47, 49 and 55 stop outside or near the Meeting House, and King’s Norton rail station is 5 minutes’ walk away. There is a bicycle rack and car park.
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