Monthly notice from Quakers in Britain

Books of the Month May 2018 from the Quaker Centre Bookshop. LINK to PDF

Woodbrooke Upcoming Courses May 2018 LINK to PDF

Quaker Week 2018

29 September – 7 October 2018

This year’s theme is ‘Room for more’. As Quakers we offer a table rich with good things, but recognise it could be more inclusive. There is room for more at the table – how can we let people know that there’s a space for them? A recipe book full of ideas on how to explore this year’s theme will be posted direct to local meetings around the time of Yearly Meeting.
You can now book your speaker for Quaker Week. We can offer speakers on a wide range of subjects. It is worth thinking carefully about the topic, and whether it will encourage people from other parts of your community to attend.
speakers@quaker.org.uk

 

William Gunn’s Charity
The Charity exists to assist individual Members of the Religious Society of Friends who are in personal financial need by making grants of money to them or by paying for services and / or items needed by them. 

Refugee Week
These Walls Must Fall – An event for Refugee Week
6–9pm, 23 June, The light, Friends House, London
An evening of spoken word, music and resistance!
We live in a society where border controls are expanding at an alarming rate. Whether it’s in hospitals, schools, or on our streets, it is increasingly a dangerous time for people from migrant and refugee communities – or those perceived as being so.
As part of Refugee Week 2018 (18–24 June), we will be celebrating people’s resistance to these injustices – and creating a space that strengthens our collective capacity to overcome fear and mistrust. Instead, we hope to transform our communities to become beacons of welcome and hospitality.
For more information about this event, visit our Facebook page Tickets £5, concessions £3
For details and booking: www.quaker.org.uk/events/thesewallsmustfall
Tatiana Garavito, tatianag@quaker.org.uk, 020 7663 1096
 
Note from M: I will kee an eye open for more local events for Refugee Week

Peace

Lobby the UK government to take part in the UN’s upcoming conference on nuclear disarmament
From May 14–16, the UN General Assembly will hold a United Nations high-level international conference on nuclear disarmament. The UK government has not yet decided whether or not it will attend. The UK has a responsibility to seize all opportunities to engage with the vast majority of member states on the agenda of nuclear disarmament. We are encouraging Friends to use our latest resource available at www.quaker.org.uk/nuclear-disarmament to lobby their MP or MSP about UK participation in the conference.
Please send Sahdya Darr an email at sahdyad@quaker.org.uk if you write to your MP or MSP.

A guide to taking action to urge the UK government to seek political and diplomatic solutions to the situation in Syria

We have been receiving emails and calls from Friends asking what they can do in response to the launch of airstrikes in Syria. We are encouraging Friends to use our ‘A guide to taking action to urge the UK government to seek political and diplomatic solutions to the situation in Syria.’ The guide contains several actions Friends can take and is available at www.quaker.org.uk/our-work/peace.
Please send Sahdya Darr an email at sahdyad@quaker.org.uk if you write to your MP or MSP.

Note from M: We are bombing or similar approimately every other day in Iraq and Syria if you would like to see the information the Ministry of Defence log it all here: LINK going back to 2014