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Sun2

2 March 2025 at 12:45

The Prayer Game

Venue: Westminster Meeting House

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

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

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 ❤️

Sat8

8 March 2025

Monthly Quaker Ramble

Venue: A short train from London

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.

For more information (click to open in new window/tab):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/334186189932003

Sat8

8 March 2025Children & Young People

Welwyn Garden City London Link Residential

Venue: Welwyn Garden City Meeting House

It's the first London Link Residential of 2025 and bookings are now open →→ Bookings!  ←← Booking is essential to secure your place! Deadline 3rd March.

Please see below for all the info about this upcoming event:

Who!

All young people age 11-18, who are Quakers or connected to Quakers are very welcome.

This event is run by London Link Group, we will have 5, enthusiastic, responsibly recruited, safeguarding trained, experienced and enhanced DBS checked adult volunteers to run the weekend. See website or contact clerk@londonlinkgroup.org.uk for more info about London Link.

What!
We're planning a great residential weekend. Currently in our plan: Introductions and getting to know each other

Games - from Board games to Empire to Sardines (we'll explain it all, join in with what you want to)
A thought provoking session on the theme of "Living in a world that doesn't share all your values" An open mic space - bring your music (there are not one but two pianos! and guitar that a volunteer is willing to lend!) , instruments, poems, singing ability, spoken word, things to share, inspirations etc and willingness to be an excellent audience member.
Quiet reflection time - Epilogue and Quaker meeting (option to stay in for full hour or first 15min)

Eating together
Walk / Trip out (weather dependent)
Craft session

Friendship and fellowship
Free time / hanging out

Where!
Quaker Meeting House, Welwyn Garden City

When!

Date: 8th to the 9th of March 2025

Contact!
clerk@londonlinkgroup.org.uk for further event details.

Sun9

9 March 2025 at 13:30

Life on the West Bank

Venue: Wanstead Quaker Meeting House Bush Road E11 3AU

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

Meeting for Worship 10.30 am.

Sat15

15 March 2025 at 15:30 – 18:30

Winchmore Hill Open Afternoon

Venue: Winchmore Hill, 59 Church Hill, N21 1LE

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

For more information (click to open in new window/tab):
https://files.quaker.app/1wtq5w/k8wqp9was/view/ad7451278cf60dddace1b6cfa8fe5a13

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

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 ❤️

Sun23

23 March 2025 at 12:30

Quaker Social Action Talk

Venue: Westminster Meeting House

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.

Sun23

23 March 2025 at 14:00 – 16:00 Children & Young People

London Teenage Quaker Meeting

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

Are you a teenager (13 - 19)? Do you live in or near London? Then come down to London Teenage Quaker Meeting, a meeting specifically for teenagers! Biscuits will be provided!

Please sign up in advanced!  

London Link Group is a volunteer-run Quaker group that organises events to bring Young Quakers aged 11-18 together. They run the monthly Teenage Quaker Meeting, along with other fun events like trips to theme parks, parties and residentials.

Website: London Teenage Quaker Meeting – London Link Group

Sat29

29 March 2025 at 10:00

Moving forward on reparations with London Quakers

Venue: Friends House Library

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.

 

Sat29

29 March 2025 at 10:00 – 13:30

Meeting of our London Quakers group working on reparations

Venue: Friends House Library 10am then Margaret Fell Room from 11:30

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

Thu3

3 April 2025 at 12:00 – 13:00

Worship outside New Scotland Yard

Venue: Victoria Embankment London SW1A 2JL

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

Sun6

6 April 2025 at 12:30

Westminster Meeting House Bring and Share Lunch

Venue: Westminster Meeting House

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

Sun6

6 April 2025 at 17:00 – 18:00

Young Adult Quaker Meeting

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

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 ❤️

Sat12

12 April 2025

Monthly Quaker Ramble

Venue: A short train from London

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.

For more information (click to open in new window/tab):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/334186189932003

Sat12

12 April 2025 at 10:00 – 16:30

The Quakers: An introduction

Venue: City Literary Institute, Keeley Street, WC2B 4BA

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

Sun13

13 April 2025 at 14:00 – 17:00

A Threshing Meeting on Districts

Venue: Westminster Meeting House 52 St Martin’s Lane  - WC2N 4EH

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

Mon14

14 April 2025 at 19:00 – 20:30

Refugees at home are urgently looking for more hosts. Information evening

Venue: Kings Cross Church

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

Sun20

20 April 2025 at 17:00 – 18:00

Young Adult Quaker Meeting

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

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 ❤️

Tue22

22 April 2025 at 18:00

Jennifer Kavanagh in conversation with Harvey Gillman about her new book Thread of Life: My Russian legacy

Venue: Friends House

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.

Sun27

27 April 2025 at 14:00 – 16:00 Children & Young People

London Teenage Quaker Meeting

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

Are you a teenager (13 - 19)? Do you live in or near London? Then come down to London Teenage Quaker Meeting, a meeting specifically for teenagers! Biscuits will be provided!

Please sign up in advanced!  

London Link Group is a volunteer-run Quaker group that organises events to bring Young Quakers aged 11-18 together. They run the monthly Teenage Quaker Meeting, along with other fun events like trips to theme parks, parties and residentials.

Website: London Teenage Quaker Meeting – London Link Group

Sun4

4 May 2025 at 17:00 – 18:00

Young Adult Quaker Meeting

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

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 ❤️

Wed7

7 May 2025 at 19:00

Wandsworth Prison Improvement Campaign - second Public Meeting

Venue: St Anne's Church, St Ann's Hill, Wandsworth

The Wandsworth Prison Improvement Campaign will be holding its second public meeting on May 7th at 7pm at St Anne's Church, St Ann's Hill,  Wandsworth - just up the hill on the right past Wandsworth Meeting House. TH speakers will be the new Governor of hte prison, Andy Davy, the Prison and Probation Ombudsman, Adrian Usher and Natasha Porter who runs Unlocked Graduates which seeks to encourage and support good new potential leaders to join the prison service. There will be lots of audience participation too!
Come along and learn about what is really going on in our prisons and particularly in Wandsworth. 

 

Sat10

10 May 2025

Monthly Quaker Ramble

Venue: A short train from London

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.

For more information (click to open in new window/tab):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/334186189932003

Sun18

18 May 2025 at 17:00 – 18:00

Young Adult Quaker Meeting

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

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 ❤️

Sun1

1 June 2025 at 17:00 – 18:00

Young Adult Quaker Meeting

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

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 ❤️

Sat14

14 June 2025

Monthly Quaker Ramble

Venue: A short train from London

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.

For more information (click to open in new window/tab):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/334186189932003

Sun15

15 June 2025 at 17:00 – 18:00

Young Adult Quaker Meeting

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

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 ❤️

Sun22

22 June 2025 at 14:00 – 16:00 Children & Young People

London Teenage Quaker Meeting

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

Are you a teenager (13 - 19)? Do you live in or near London? Then come down to London Teenage Quaker Meeting, a meeting specifically for teenagers! Biscuits will be provided!

Please sign up in advanced!  

London Link Group is a volunteer-run Quaker group that organises events to bring Young Quakers aged 11-18 together. They run the monthly Teenage Quaker Meeting, along with other fun events like trips to theme parks, parties and residentials.

Website: London Teenage Quaker Meeting – London Link Group

Sun6

6 July 2025 at 17:00 – 18:00

Young Adult Quaker Meeting

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

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 ❤️

Sat12

12 July 2025

Monthly Quaker Ramble

Venue: A short train from London

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.

For more information (click to open in new window/tab):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/334186189932003

Sun20

20 July 2025 at 17:00 – 18:00

Young Adult Quaker Meeting

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

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 ❤️

Sun27

27 July 2025 at 14:00 – 16:00 Children & Young People

London Teenage Quaker Meeting

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

Are you a teenager (13 - 19)? Do you live in or near London? Then come down to London Teenage Quaker Meeting, a meeting specifically for teenagers! Biscuits will be provided!

Please sign up in advanced!  

London Link Group is a volunteer-run Quaker group that organises events to bring Young Quakers aged 11-18 together. They run the monthly Teenage Quaker Meeting, along with other fun events like trips to theme parks, parties and residentials.

Website: London Teenage Quaker Meeting – London Link Group