Quaker Events in London

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Sun1

1 December 2024 at 17:00 – 18:00

Young Adult Quaker Meeting

Venue: Westminster Quaker Meeting House, 52 St Martin's Lane, London WC2N 4EA

3 March 2024 at 17:00 – 18:00

London Young Adult Quaker Meeting provides a supportive and nurturing space for young Quakers aged between 18 and 35 to connect, reflect, and share in silent worship.  

It's also a great way to meet others who share our Quaker values and beliefs.

Takes place the first Sunday in every month at Westminster Quaker Meeting House

Mon2

2 December 2024 at 19:00 – 20:30

The Stubborn Optimist: A Quaker Climate Scientist

Venue: Kingston Quaker Centre

Internationally respected climate scientist and Quaker Emma Woolliams will talk at Kingston Quaker Centre about her work.  
 
Despite her work at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington measuring the true scale of the climate emergency facing Earth - one of her current projects involves detailing the speed with which Greenland’s ice sheet is melting - Emma describes herself as a ‘stubborn optimist’.
 
"The oceans are rising, acidifying and warming, the ice is melting, weather patterns are changing. It can be quite frightening but I remain a stubborn optimist. I am  - like most of us - fully aware of the scale of the challenge, but I believe humanity can rise to it.” Emma cites positive tipping points such as the recent closure of the UK’s last coal-fired power station as an encouraging example.
 
Emma’s talk - titled The Stubborn Optimist:  A Quaker Climate Scientist - will detail her work which involves understanding the observations satellites make of the Earth’s climate system to obtain reliable long-term trends of different climate variables including sea ice thickness, land surface temperatures, sea level rise and the Earth’s energy imbalance.
 
Emma will also explain how her Quaker faith helps in her work, giving her a sense of perspective and hope alongside her understanding of the scale of the climate emergency facing the world.
 
“I believe that Quaker religious practices and stories, and our testimonies to simplicity, peace, equality and truth, provide an essential perspective as society undergoes necessary transitions to build a sustainable future”, comments Emma.

Wed4

4 December 2024 at 19:00 Joint London Area Meeting

Qualms and Questions

Venue: Online

The Joint London Area Meeting Development Group has organised an on-line session to hear qualms and queries about the Joint London Area Meeting.  You will be able to join using the button above on the day of the meeting.

Sun15

15 December 2024 at 17:00 – 18:00

Young Adult Quaker Meeting

Venue: Westminster Quaker Meeting House, 52 St Martin's Lane, London WC2N 4EA

3 March 2024 at 17:00 – 18:00

London Young Adult Quaker Meeting provides a supportive and nurturing space for young Quakers aged between 18 and 35 to connect, reflect, and share in silent worship.  

It's also a great way to meet others who share our Quaker values and beliefs.

Takes place the first Sunday in every month at Westminster Quaker Meeting House

Sun5

5 January 2025 at 17:00 – 18:00

Young Adult Quaker Meeting

Venue: Westminster Quaker Meeting House, 52 St Martin's Lane, London WC2N 4EA

3 March 2024 at 17:00 – 18:00

London Young Adult Quaker Meeting provides a supportive and nurturing space for young Quakers aged between 18 and 35 to connect, reflect, and share in silent worship.  

It's also a great way to meet others who share our Quaker values and beliefs.

Takes place the first Sunday in every month at Westminster Quaker Meeting House

Sat11

11 January 2025 at 10:30 – 16:30

Saturday Retreat Day

Venue: Golders Green Meeting House

These days for quiet reflection are open to anyone who welcomes the opportunity to spend time in silence, in quiet company and nurturing surroundings.
The morning may be introduced with short guided exercises to still body, mind and spirit.

As well as use of the comfortable meeting house and the woodland gardens, participants may join a quiet walk in Bigwood or browse the library.

Please bring with you notebook or reading material you might find helpful with a lunch item to share, or a packed lunch. Tea/coffee and biscuits will be provided throughout the day.
A donation of £10 is suggested towards the cost of hiring the meeting house.

Please come and know that you will be welcomed.

Sun19

19 January 2025 at 17:00 – 18:00

Young Adult Quaker Meeting

Venue: Westminster Quaker Meeting House, 52 St Martin's Lane, London WC2N 4EA

3 March 2024 at 17:00 – 18:00

London Young Adult Quaker Meeting provides a supportive and nurturing space for young Quakers aged between 18 and 35 to connect, reflect, and share in silent worship.  

It's also a great way to meet others who share our Quaker values and beliefs.

Takes place the first Sunday in every month at Westminster Quaker Meeting House

Fri24

24 January 2025 at 11:00

Meeting for worship to uphold MPs voting on the Climate and Nature Bill

Venue: Parliament Square

Friday 24th January is when the Climate and Nature Bill will receive its second reading in Parliament.

There will be a Quaker-organised Meeting for Worship from 11 am in Parliament Square that day, and also an online event for those that cam’t make it. The aim is to uphold  MPs as they consider the difficult decisions that need to be made.

More information about the bill is available at https://www.zerohour.uk. Quakers in Britain have agreed to support this, including by signing a letter from faith leaders. More information about the Quaker events will be available nearer the time.

Sat25

25 January 2025 at 18:15 – 21:15

An Evening for Gaza

Venue: Kingston Quaker Centre

Quakers have a longstanding tradition of peace and relief
work for which American and British Quakers shared the
Nobel Peace prize in 1947. Both have worked in Israel
and Palestine since 1948. Today American Quakers are
delivering lifesaving aid in Gaza as conditions allow.
Join us for an evening to raise money
for this work. The night will include:
• Middle Eastern food, speakers about Gaza
• Performance by Saeid Silbak, Palestinian oud player

Buy Tickets at  https://bit.ly/GazaFR

Sun26

26 January 2025 at 14:00 – 18:00 Children & Young People

Winterval London Link Party!

Venue: Westminster Meeting House

London Link Bookings 2025

Do you like pizza, games and Quaker quizzes? Are you aged 11 - 18 and want to get to know Quakers and folks from London and beyond? Then come on down to the London Link Winterval party for a great time and delicious food. 

Please sign up at the booking form by January 24th and email julias@quaker.org.uk and londonlinkgroup@gmail.com with any questions. 

Sat1

1 February 2025 at 10:00 – 13:00 Joint London Area Meeting

London Area Meeting Preparation Meeting (listening to each other)

Venue: St Johns, Waterloo

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In preparation for the next meeting of Area Meetings in London we call an additional Meeting so that all Quakers in London might listen to each other and share our hopes, fears and reservations about a single London Area Meeting. This is an opportunity to listen to each other in worship under the care of Elders.  There will be no decisions and no minutes.

This being a Quaker Meeting you don’t have to register,   but it helps the organisers set up the right number of chairs. And provide enough coffee.   The space is large, and we foresee no problem of seating capacity.  

Register for this event.

Children and Young People
We have provision for Children and Young people from 10:00 – 13:00.  The registration form invites you to tell us about CYP you plan to bring.

Your arrangements committee seek volunteers on the day.  The registration form has space for offers.

 
Timetable
10:00   Convene and settling, drinks
10:30   Worship
10:45    Admit latecomers
11:00 - 11:45    Opening words, contributions
11:45 - 12:00    Shuffle break
12:00 - 13:00  Further contributions
13:15    Closing Worship
13:30    End

Sat1

1 February 2025 at 14:00

London Quakers - at the heart of enslavement

Venue: Friends House

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Reparations work and London Quakers

London was at the heart of the industrial revolution in the UK and of the Transatlantic trade - guns, enslavement, cotton, tobacco, gold, ivory, sugar.  All of this ran on financing and insurance.  As well as being an industrial powerhouse and Britain’s largest port, London was the heart of finance, with Quakers deeply enmeshed in it.

 

While BYM grapples with reparations,  several UK Quaker groups - mostly in port cities - are confronting history.  They  acknowledge the need to understand Quakers’ involvement  deeply.

 

London Quakers most recent meeting about reparations (November 2024) engaged with the work of the BYM Reparations Working Group.  Many of those present expressed a call to work on the issues of reparations.

 

On 1 February we will launch a London Quakers working group in a hybrid meeting at Friends House.  All Quakers working on reparations issues are welcome to join by zoom. 

 

We will meet BYM’s recently appointed Reparation Coordinator, Professor Nathaniel Coleman.  Nathaniel will interview author Jordan Landes who wrote the important book London Quakers and the Transatlantic Trade.   We will discuss input from Friends House librarian Lucy Saint-Smith who outlined for the November Meeting some of the resources in our Library and guided us to other sources.  We hope for input from members from the Co-Clerks of the BYM Reparations Working Group.

 

We hope to emerge from the afternoon with a group united in taking forward this work for London Quakers.

Sun2

2 February 2025 at 17:00 – 18:00

Young Adult Quaker Meeting

Venue: Westminster Quaker Meeting House, 52 St Martin's Lane, London WC2N 4EA

3 March 2024 at 17:00 – 18:00

London Young Adult Quaker Meeting provides a supportive and nurturing space for young Quakers aged between 18 and 35 to connect, reflect, and share in silent worship.  

It's also a great way to meet others who share our Quaker values and beliefs.

Takes place the first Sunday in every month at Westminster Quaker Meeting House

Sat15

15 February 2025 at 10:00 Joint London Area Meeting

Joint London Area Meeting

Venue: St John’s, Waterloo, SE1 8TY

The next meeting of Area Meetings in London.

There will be provision for children and young people.

There will be tables for Friends to eat lunch together.

 

Sun16

16 February 2025 at 17:00 – 18:00

Young Adult Quaker Meeting

Venue: Westminster Quaker Meeting House, 52 St Martin's Lane, London WC2N 4EA

3 March 2024 at 17:00 – 18:00

London Young Adult Quaker Meeting provides a supportive and nurturing space for young Quakers aged between 18 and 35 to connect, reflect, and share in silent worship.  

It's also a great way to meet others who share our Quaker values and beliefs.

Takes place the first Sunday in every month at Westminster Quaker Meeting House

Sun2

2 March 2025 at 17:00 – 18:00

Young Adult Quaker Meeting

Venue: Westminster Quaker Meeting House, 52 St Martin's Lane, London WC2N 4EA

3 March 2024 at 17:00 – 18:00

London Young Adult Quaker Meeting provides a supportive and nurturing space for young Quakers aged between 18 and 35 to connect, reflect, and share in silent worship.  

It's also a great way to meet others who share our Quaker values and beliefs.

Takes place the first Sunday in every month at Westminster Quaker Meeting House

Sun16

16 March 2025 at 17:00 – 18:00

Young Adult Quaker Meeting

Venue: Westminster Quaker Meeting House, 52 St Martin's Lane, London WC2N 4EA

3 March 2024 at 17:00 – 18:00

London Young Adult Quaker Meeting provides a supportive and nurturing space for young Quakers aged between 18 and 35 to connect, reflect, and share in silent worship.  

It's also a great way to meet others who share our Quaker values and beliefs.

Takes place the first Sunday in every month at Westminster Quaker Meeting House