Most Quaker Meetings try to use Fairtrade tea & coffee, and several in Central England have signed up as Fairtrade Meetings. Fairtrade Fortnight will take place from Monday 9 September – Sunday 22 September 2024. It’s an opportunity to explain Read More …
Quakers across Britain and across the world gathered recently, and shared their reflections in the form of epistles. Read epistles from Britain Yearly Meeting and the World Plenary Meeting, and share your experiences of attending BYM. Read More …
Following the recent racist, anti-migrant and Islamophobic violence, Quakers across the country have been reaching out to local mosques and working with migrant support groups to show solidarity and to support those affected. Quakers in Britain are launching a new Read More …
Did you attend Britain Yearly Meeting either in person or on zoom? The Area Meeting Clerks would love to hear Friends’ experiences of BYM and collate them to be shared at our September Area Meeting. If you would be willing Read More …
A round-up of events and actions for peace, being led by (or in partnership with) various Quaker bodies around Britain. Hiroshima Day A play ‘The Priest’s Tale’ remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki followed by poetry readings by peace poet Antony Owen Read More …
Quaker Week runs every year to help Quaker meetings to attract new people and share their faith. In 2024, Quaker Week will be from 28 September to 6 October, with the same theme as last year of ‘ Simple. Radical. Read More …
Midlands Green Quakers is a peer support group for any Friends concerned about Climate Justice. It is open to the whole of the Midlands region (including CEQ), and is convened by Sarah Shaw, the East Midlands Local Development Worker. Sarah Read More …
Meg Harper and Dave Rawcliffe of Warwick Quaker Meeting, invite Friends to join a regular Sunday-evening online worship. Online Meeting for Worship 7.45 to 8.45 on Sunday evenings. Currently there are just three regular attenders, but we continue to feel Read More …
Stourbridge Meeting has copies of the original editions of George Fox’s Journal and Epistles, the Collected Works of William Penn, and Besse’s Sufferings of the People called Quakers, with a few other early Quaker books. If any other Meeting in Central Read More …
Central England Quaker Rhiannon Grant recently appeared on BBC Radio 2’s Pause for thought, reflecting on the idea of ‘sacrifice’ and Advices & Queries 41 “A simple lifestyle freely chosen is a source of strength.” You can listen online below, Read More …