News in brief

Publications to support children and young people’s outreach

Quaker Life’s children and young people’s and outreach staff have been working together to produce several new resources for outreach with children and young people. These are offered to provide children and young people with opportunities to find out about Quaker beliefs, values and practices. 

Schools Journeys is a new resource offering ideas for meetings undertaking outreach with children and young people and to meetings hosting school visits or going into schools. 

This is a free resource which can be downloaded from www.quaker.org.uk/cyp (click on ‘Resources’ and then ‘Publications’), alternatively phone Quaker Life Outreach on 020 7663 1017 or email carmelk@quaker.org.uk

Quakers: a guide for young people and Quakers: a children’s guide are two new introductory leaflets for children and young people new to Quakers, written and designed with help from children and young people at Yearly Meeting. Both will be available from from the Quaker Bookshop from February 2009. 

Reading Room opening hours extended

The opening hours of the Library’s Reading Room at Friends House will be extended from January 2009. 

The new hours will be Tuesday to Friday from 10am to 5pm. The Reading Room will be closed on Mondays. Our first day of opening with the new hours will be Tuesday 6 January 2009. 

There will be one week per year in May when the Reading Room is closed for annual stock checking and maintenance. In 2009 closed week will be from 18 to 22 May. 

Contact:
The Library
library@quaker.org.uk
020 7663 1135