Quaker communities news
This page contains news about running local and area meetings and other Quaker communities.
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Planning in progress for new Quaker Camp starting in Yorkshire next year
27 June 2024
Plans are now shaping up for the Yorkshire Quaker Camp, a new all-age affordable and fun residential Quaker event for the whole of Yorkshire which will take place in August 2025.
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Quakers busy in preparation for upcoming election
6 June 2024
Quakers are political due to our faith commitments. With the general election on 4th July, Quakers up and down the country are engaged in preparations – from chairing general elections hustings to lobbying prospective MPs and much more besides.
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Teaching Peace in Schools
3 May 2024
Quakers in Bristol have been working with the BYM Peace Education Team to learn how to train primary school children to mediate playground issues with their peers. Since doing the training earlier this year, Bristol Quakers are now lined up to work with their first primary school in June, and there is quite a buzz about developing more opportunities to teach skills for peace to more Bristol children.
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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!'