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"Our religious experience leads us to place a special value on truth, equality, simplicity and peace. These testimonies, as they are known, are lived rather than written. They lead Quakers to translate their faith into action by working locally and globally for social justice, to support peacemakers and care for the environment."

News & Notices

The news and notices section of this site will display news items and notices of interest to Quakers. If you would like to submit a news item or a notice, please contact us.

Nonviolence for a Change: Training 2009

Turning the Tide present a year-long course in nonviolence for activist, campaigners and concerned citizens

Tombstone Tales and Boothill Ballads

A Graveyard Cabaret, written and directed by Carl Heap of Muswell Hill Meeting.

Peter Daniels wins Arvon International Poetry Prize

London Quaker Peter Daniels (Stoke Newington Local Meeting) has won the Arvon International Poetry Prize

Sally Nicholls wins Glen Dimplex Prize

Sally Nicholls, a long-time attender of Westminster Meeting, has been named Glen Dimplex New Writer of the Year 2008 for her book Ways to Live Forever

Friends from Virginia need accommodation

A group of visiting Friends from Virginia are looking for a Friendly floor in the London Region to camp on, for a few days in March and April 2009. There will be around 30 altogether. They approached Friends House, but there is no suitable accommodation there; can you help?

Letting of offices at Bunhill Fields Meeting

Offices in Bunhill meeting house are available to let at an annual cost of £7,200 plus council tax, phone costs and share of other bills. Offices comprise two rooms one 2.79 X 5.27 metres, and the smaller one, 2.94 X 4.49 metres. Bunhill meeting house is located in a pleasant green area within 500 metres of Old St tube. The meeting are seeking a charitable organisation as tenants.

QPSW Disarm volunteer

It would be a great help to me if I could find one or two volunteers to take on the practical side of getting the newsletters out in exchange for your help, you would receive a free lunch at Friends House.

London Quakers - the Future

What do Quakers want?

London Quaker Peace Network and The Peace Exchange email lists

Two email lists for Quakers to join who are interested in Peace action, ideas, opportunities and events.

London Quaker Home Educators

A way to link up with other Quaker home educators in the London area.

Area Quaker Meetings

How Quakers organise themselves around the capital

Would you like to help develop this website?

Wanted! New people for the London Quakers website group.

London, Sugar & Slavery

Exhibition examines London’s involvement in transatlantic slavery