New Meeting at St Neots

St Neots now has its own Quaker Meeting

St Neots, the largest town in Cambridgeshire, now has its own Quaker Meeting.

Local Friends had been travelling to Huntingdon to worship until eighteen months ago, when a monthly Saturday Meeting for Worship was launched in the United Reformed Church. Friends at St Neots later decided that a Sunday Meeting would better suit those who work during the week.

The first weekly Sunday Meeting for Worship took place on 6 July. The Area Meeting is providing elders on a rota basis, and the group hopes to attract new members, including those from beyond the town.

Quakers at St Neots have found themselves in unlikely surroundings, as Hazel Shellens explained to the Friend: ‘We meet for worship in a room within St Neots Museum, which used to be a courthouse. The museum is marking the centenary of the outbreak of the first world war, and so we are sharing space with a replica trench made out of recycled materials!’

‘I’m not sure whether that’s good or bad,’ she added.

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