Quaker communities news
This page contains news about running local and area meetings and other Quaker communities.
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Toddler group in Oxford Meeting
1 September 2023
The Youth, Children and Families Worker in Thames Valley has supported Oxford meeting to start up 'Cake and Play', a weekly toddler and carer's group. Participants say they "love the mix of generations!"
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The Quaker Life staff team is now at full strength
17 August 2023
We are really pleased to announce that Ellie McCarthy started work in Quaker Life as temporary cover for the East Anglia region. Bev Smith is having treatment and we wish her well until she returns in the autumn.
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Quaker Week 2023: 'Simple. Radical. Spiritual.'
1 August 2023
Quaker Life now has new outreach resources available to order through our Quaker Week campaign for this year: 'Simple. Radical. Spiritual.'
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Quakers in the South West look forward to gathering
31 July 2023
Quakers in the south & west of England have been revisiting regional gatherings. A decade ago it became difficult to organise residentials, something that Devon & Cornwall Friends had enjoyed doing on a regular basis up until that point.
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West youth residential in Street
21 July 2023
Young Quakers gathered for an overnight adventure as part of the Quaker Youth Project in the West region. They shared food, community and worship around the theme of transition and bringing in the new. They were very grateful for the warm welcome by Street Meeting House in Somerset.
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Launch of new Quaker equity network
25 July 2023
A new Quaker equity network is to look at how differences, including those attributed to race, class, sex, neurodiversity and others, are interlinked in order to build a better future together.
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Yorkshire Link group goes to Scarborough!
21 July 2023
The reinvigorated Yorkshire Link Group have run three events in the last year with the support of their Youth Development worker. In June young people met for a weekend in Scarborough.