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Low carbon: What’s working for you?
We look on games as just fun pastimes, but increasingly games are used for serious education and training. We were reminded at the special interest group on Sunday that Monopoly was devised by a Quaker. The Minute 36 group have devised two games to help us find what actions we might...
Exploring mental health in Meetings
Many special interest groups at Yearly Meeting were full to overflowing. Those who met on Saturday to talk about mental health in Meetings filled the seats, sat on the floor and spilled out of the doorway to hear from the Quaker Life Mental Health Cluster. The room was just...
Bubbles
Bubbles were in the air at Yearly Meeting on Monday morning. In the ‘As Led’ session a Friend spoke of her concern over the ‘bubble’ of Friends associated with Woodbrooke and Friends House, who ‘have the connections’, and those who were not involved in this, seemingly exclusive, Quaker world.
Twenty years of working for peace
Rhiannon Redpath and Owen Everett invited Friends to join them in celebrating twenty years of the Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW) peaceworker scheme with an interactive workshop on Sunday evening. The two young Friends showed a short film and talked about their own experiences. Friends were challenged to...
Quaker United Nations Office
Climate change. Peacebuilding. Control of seeds. Children of prisoners. What do these issues have in common? They are all work areas at the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO). In a wide-ranging special interest group on Saturday, three staff members from QUNO’s Geneva office talked about their current priorities....
The nature of the church
A small group of Friends gathered on Saturday evening to explore how the Gospel message preached by George Fox and the early Friends is still relevant to us today. The New Foundation Fellowship (NFF) aims to share the message that Jesus is present in the world and that by...
Kindlers book launch
The Kindlers packed out their special interest group as they promoted three new publications on Saturday: Early Quaker Women by Elaine Hobby, Quakers and Christ Today by Doug Gwyn and Questioning the Peace Testimony by John Lampen.
Bath 2014
Images of refreshment and renewal, prompted by a reference to the famous Roman baths, were raised in a short presentation promoting the 2014 Yearly Meeting Gathering of Friends to be held in Bath. The gathering will be held between 2-9 August on the campus of the University of Bath and...
Penn Friends in the park
The Penn Friends (aged five to nine) sat on the steps of Gandhi’s statue in Tavistock Square on a sunny Sunday morning and heard stories of what he had done.
Woodcraft Folk back campaign
Woodcraft Folk, the national children’s charity, has pledged to campaign to get the military out of schools. At their recent Annual General Meeting (AGM) the charity voted against military activities leading to recruitment of under eighteen year olds from within UK schools.