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Find a confident Quaker ear

The National Quaker Week website invites readers to listen to nine people explaining why they decided to be a Quaker. They are nine personal and very different stories. Anne van Staveren finds out how the interviews on www.quaker.org.uk/different came about.

Nine interviewees answer the question: why are you a Quaker? They speak for one and a half minutes.…(read more)

Getting into the swing of it: National Quaker Week

Tom Harris led the team that supported meetings during National Quaker Week this year. He looks back at what meetings got up to, and reviews plans for the future.

Quaker meetings across the country took part in Quaker Week 2008 in October, raising awareness of Quaker meetings and the Quaker way by doing lots of wonderful outreach activities.…(read more)

Opening soon, to new light

 There has been more noise than usual recently around Friends House. The whizzing of drills, banging of hammers and screeching of power saws has been just a part of it. Also discernible has been a tangible buzz of excitement.…(read more)

Outreach (Quaker Week 2010)

Outreach is the sharing of information on Quaker convictions, beliefs, practices with the general public. We are not out to convert people but to point them to the divine light that is in them. As well as working nationally on behalf of Britain Yearly Meeting, the Outreach Section encourages all Friends in the practice of sharing their spiritual journeys with others and listening to the journeys of other people.…(read more)

Quaker Week 2009

This year's site for Quaker Week is at www.quaker.org.uk/you 

Quaker Week 2009 happened October 3rd-11th. The free pack of QW materials (below) includes examples of successful events both large and small from last 2008's QW.…(read more)

Resources for Outreach and Quaker Week 2009

Resources and guides for outreach: These “how to” guides aim to help you plan outreach work, particularly around Quaker Week 2009. We have included ideas for Quaker Week activities, sessions for working with your meeting around outreach and advice on advertising, media work and making your meeting house attractive.

Sheila Hancock encourages Quakers to speak out

Friends House, the London home of Quakers in Britain, welcomed actress Sheila Hancock to the new Quaker Centre during National Quaker Week, 3-11 October. She said being a Quaker was deeply important to her and she encouraged Quakers to overcome their instinctive humility and to speak up about their faith.…(read more)