Quaker communities news
This page contains news about running local and area meetings and other Quaker communities.
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New edition of the Handbook for trustees of Quaker meetings
16 May 2024
Quaker Life is now responsible for supporting area meeting charities and giving them advice and guidance on good governance. They have recently finished a 2024 edition of the trustees handbook.
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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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Exploring the Quaker way online
17 April 2024
Over the last year, the Yorkshire Local Development Worker has been offering monthly online sessions for newcomers to Quakers, called 'Exploring the Quaker Way'. Over 70 newcomers from all over Britain have taken part so far, some regularly, and some dropping in for sessions as and when they are available.
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Working together in the southwest
8 April 2024
Friends from Area Meetings in Bristol, Somerset, Devon and Cornwall gathered together on a sunny day in March in Taunton Meeting House. Some Friends also joined online for the day which was hosted by Ollie Waterhouse (Quaker Life Team Leader) and Jac Blacker (Local Development Worker).
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Stories for community building
5 April 2024
Everyone watched silently as the tiger's stripes reappeared as if by magic! We can all engage with a well told story and here's a simple way of being ready at the drop of a hat...
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Young people planning their Yearly Meeting programme
25 March 2024
There are 3 young people on the arrangements committee for the programme for 11-15s at Yearly Meeting this year. Since being nominated at last year's event they've been working behind the scenes with Quaker Life staff to plan this year's event.