Friends welcomed the community into their Meeting house for the Festival Photo: Photo courtesy of Ipswich Meeting.
Eye - 13 July 2012
From Green Ideas to going whoosh!
Green ideas take centre stage in Ipswich
The problems facing bees was just one of many topics buzzing around bonnets in Ipswich recently.
The Meeting House thronged with people on 12 May as Friends threw open their doors for the Festival of Green Ideas. It was organised by local Quakers in conjunction with the Ipswich Transition group.
The Ipswich Meeting Green Ideas Team said it was ‘a celebration of all that the local community is doing to help address both local and global environmental and community issues’.
Activities included stalls, speakers, films, children’s activities, a question time discussion, live music and a cafe serving locally sourced food.
They added: ‘It was a very busy and exciting day. There were visitors who had never been in a Meeting House before and so it worked well as a Quaker Outreach exercise. It was also a wonderful opportunity for our own Inreach – for our Meeting to all come together to help out with the event.’
The Meeting have resources available that they are happy to loan to other Meetings wishing to put on their own event. For details contact Heather at: hbbruce@hotmail.co.uk
For further information please visit: www.suffolkquakers.org.uk/green-ideas.htm
Whoosh-ish!
Judith Weeks sent word of an exuberant Sunday at Sibford Meeting.
She writes: ‘Sibford’s large old Meeting house is usually full only for marriages and funerals, so it was such a delight when it was full one Sunday morning recently, to welcome Charlie, the grandson of Gill and Tim Yeomans. Around forty adults and eighteen toddlers and babies filled our Meeting House with delightful, noisy, ministry.
‘Vibrant and whoosh-ish it certainly was!’
A record?
Janet Quilley, of Wensleydale and Swaledale Area Meeting, wrote to Eye in reply to Michael Hennessay’s question (29 June). Eye waited for the email to open with baited breath – had she found an even younger attender?
‘Not six days old and not Area Meeting – but our oldest daughter did get a mention in the 1965 Yearly Meeting Epistle because we took her, aged one month, to the Swarthmore Lecture and she made a comment!’
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