Quaker communities news
This page contains news about running local and area meetings and other Quaker communities.
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Malvern Meeting restart children's meeting
24 April 2024
Malvern Local Meeting have recently started a regular children's meeting, to coincide with their monthly shared lunch. A group of Friends has been busy planning and organising, with support from their Local Development Worker. The first children's meeting was in January 2024. Children's meeting is now every fourth Sunday at 10.30am.
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Reparations reflections: truth and reconciliation
18 April 2024
The Reparations Working Group has been appointed to take forward the commitment minuted by Britain Yearly Meeting in 2022 to consider financial and other reparations for the role of Quakers in the transatlantic chattel slave trade. You can find out more about this decision, and the actions which have flowed from it, on our reparations page.
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World Dinner in Bradford
25 January 2024
The local and youth development workers for Yorkshire hosted a team based dinner game with an international food justice theme. Some twenty Friends, including several families, gathered in Bradford Meeting House for the 'chance to enjoy a meal with a difference!'