Quaker Events in London

On Sunday 2 March, after MfW (starting at around 12.45 pm), Jennifer Kavangh will host a Prayer Game in the Meeting Room.

London Young Adult Quaker Meeting occurs every first and third Sunday (and fifth Sunday if there is one!) at 5pm at Westminster Quaker Meeting House!  To enter the building, go to the side door down Hop Gardens and buzz for the Library upon arrival.

Contact us via our Instagram page: @lyaqmeeting

5:00pm - Arrivals and socials
5:30pm - Meeting for Worship (if you want to join the Meeting for Worship, please arrive on time. We will not let people in the building between 5:35pm and 6:15pm.)
6:15pm - Notices and shared meal (an opportunity to socialise more over a bite. If you’re able to, bring snacks to share. If you’re not able to, bring your lovely presence!)
7:00pm - Home time or pub!

Everything is optional!

You can come for just the worship, or just the meal, or just the pub! Whatever you choose to join us for, it’ll be great to see you ❤️

Keith Gibson led a monthly ramble for around 40 years, for Quakers and other friends. Since his death, Joseph Rodger has been the co-ordinator of these walks, with a different member of the group leading each month's walk. Anyone is welcome on our walks.

Tanya Williams will tell us of her EAPPI visit to Palestine/Israel in late 2024.

Meeting for Worship 10.30 am.

You are invited to an Open Afternoon with the Quakers at Winchmore Hill meeting house.

London Young Adult Quaker Meeting occurs every first and third Sunday (and fifth Sunday if there is one!) at 5pm at Westminster Quaker Meeting House!  To enter the building, go to the side door down Hop Gardens and buzz for the Library upon arrival.

Contact us via our Instagram page: @lyaqmeeting

5:00pm - Arrivals and socials
5:30pm - Meeting for Worship (if you want to join the Meeting for Worship, please arrive on time. We will not let people in the building between 5:35pm and 6:15pm.)
6:15pm - Notices and shared meal (an opportunity to socialise more over a bite. If you’re able to, bring snacks to share. If you’re not able to, bring your lovely presence!)
7:00pm - Home time or pub!

Everything is optional!

You can come for just the worship, or just the meal, or just the pub! Whatever you choose to join us for, it’ll be great to see you ❤️

After Meeting for Worship on 23 March, Rachel Joseph from Quaker Social Action will give a talk at 12.30 pm on QSA’s work in local communities at a time when demand for their services is rocketing (calls to their funeral poverty helpline increased by 63% last year, for example) while funding is falling.

Following our meeting in February when we heard Nathaniel Coleman talking with Jordan Landes about the relationship between British Quakers and the transatlantic trade. Friends House Library are encouraiging us to improve our awareness of the library's resources and how they could bw used to broaden our understanding of London Quakers historical involvement in the trade in enslaved persons. 

They offer us all (up to 16 of us)  a study day aimed at those that are interested in doing historical research into London Quakers and their links to enslavement. Participants will get a sense of the collection held at the Library of the Society of Friends and possible areas to begin research. There will be a practical research task, looking into how London meeting houses were funded. The intention is to help give a sense of what information is available and how you might approach it.

After the first sessions within the Library we plan to move to the Margaret Fell Room for drinks (nothing except water in the Library!) and talk together about what work we would like to see going forward, what our own resources of time and energy will support and what other work we might seek to commission.   We plan to open the meeting updstairs to participation by Zoom.

We are looking forward to our next meeting as a group on Saturday 29th March at Friends House.  FH Library is working up a study day to help us all understand their resources for understanding our history in relation to the trade in enslaved people.

This study day is aimed at those that are interested in doing historical research into London Quakers and their links to enslavement. Participants will get a sense of the collection held at the Library of the Society of Friends and possible areas to begin research. There will be a practical research task, looking into how London meeting houses were funded. The intention is to help give a sense of what information is available and how you might approach it.

Maximum number for library work 16.  From 11:00 - or a bit later we will be upstairs to talk through next steps

Everyone is welcome to join our Meeting for Worship outside New SCotland Yard.  Organised by Quaker Support for Climate Action

As part of building a London wide community of Quakers, we invite Friends from across London to join us for worship and/or a bring and share lunch on 6th April.

Worship starts at 11:00 with the bring and share lunch at 12:30.

Children are welcome to join the children's meeting on the day. 

Please let us know if you hope to bring any contributions of food. This will help us fill in any gaps: https://forms.gle/CKHN3UTWEJjFqRre9

London Young Adult Quaker Meeting occurs every first and third Sunday (and fifth Sunday if there is one!) at 5pm at Westminster Quaker Meeting House!  To enter the building, go to the side door down Hop Gardens and buzz for the Library upon arrival.

Contact us via our Instagram page: @lyaqmeeting

5:00pm - Arrivals and socials
5:30pm - Meeting for Worship (if you want to join the Meeting for Worship, please arrive on time. We will not let people in the building between 5:35pm and 6:15pm.)
6:15pm - Notices and shared meal (an opportunity to socialise more over a bite. If you’re able to, bring snacks to share. If you’re not able to, bring your lovely presence!)
7:00pm - Home time or pub!

Everything is optional!

You can come for just the worship, or just the meal, or just the pub! Whatever you choose to join us for, it’ll be great to see you ❤️

Keith Gibson led a monthly ramble for around 40 years, for Quakers and other friends. Since his death, Joseph Rodger has been the co-ordinator of these walks, with a different member of the group leading each month's walk. Anyone is welcome on our walks.

Quaker ‘discernment’ is used by big business for
consensus decision-making, while Quakers are
often invited to areas of confl ict as mediators and
peace-builders. This introduction to Quakers tries
to explain why.

What is the course about?
The course is an introduction to the core Quaker experience, that of listening to the voice within, and why an institution with an ‘archaic’ image still has meaning and resonance for people today. The purpose of a Quaker ‘Meeting’ is to empower individuals to achieve spiritual growth and be enabled to translate feelings into socially positive action. From the mysticism of the early Quakers to the quietism of more
recent times, the Quaker discipline of ‘discernment’ is now sought after by big business as a radical model for consensus decision-making, while Quakers are invited all over the world to areas of confl ict as mediators and peace-builders. This introduction will hopefully raise as many questions as it answers.

For further information and costs, visit:
https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/
the-quakers-an-introduction

This event is hybrid, at Westminster meeting house (entry via St Martins Lane doors) and on Zoom 

• A Threshing Meeting utilises exploration and lively debate to clarify an issue.

• A district is a group of local meetings to which some of the responsibilities of the London Area Meeting would be delegated.  https://londonquakers.org.uk/districts-proposal/

• We hope to discover how we might organise ourselves as a LAM by involving optional Districts that some feel are essential and others believe can be handled at a LAM level.

• The Threshing Meeting will be guided by Elders

• No decisions will be made but Notes will be taken

• A Children and Young People's Meeting will be provided at the same time  

• There is no need to book, just turn up

Refugees at Home are urgently looking for more hosts in London, so we have organised an Information Evening in partnership with Kings Cross Church for people interested in hosting. People will hear from experienced hosts in London, have the opportunity to ask questions and get to know the ins and outs of hosting. 

If you think this might be for you, here is the sign-up link: https://forms.gle/mwTQKUBpa12rLg3u8. 

London Young Adult Quaker Meeting occurs every first and third Sunday (and fifth Sunday if there is one!) at 5pm at Westminster Quaker Meeting House!  To enter the building, go to the side door down Hop Gardens and buzz for the Library upon arrival.

Contact us via our Instagram page: @lyaqmeeting

5:00pm - Arrivals and socials
5:30pm - Meeting for Worship (if you want to join the Meeting for Worship, please arrive on time. We will not let people in the building between 5:35pm and 6:15pm.)
6:15pm - Notices and shared meal (an opportunity to socialise more over a bite. If you’re able to, bring snacks to share. If you’re not able to, bring your lovely presence!)
7:00pm - Home time or pub!

Everything is optional!

You can come for just the worship, or just the meal, or just the pub! Whatever you choose to join us for, it’ll be great to see you ❤️

Thread of Life is a portrait of the twentieth century - its times of war and peace - seen through the lives of three generations of Jewish women. At its heart are Dora, a romantic and tragic figure, a concert pianist born in Riga, who lived in St Petersburg and was killed in the Riga Holocaust; her daughter, Genia, born in 1915 in St Petersburg, who lived in many places around the world before dying in England at the age of 102; and, in their different threads and versions of the truth, their legacy to author Jennifer Kavanagh, who shares her moments of discovery while addressing themes of Russia, Jewishness, motherhood, music, home, and language, as well as the vagaries of memory.