Quaker Life
Quaker Life works to strengthen and sustain the fabric of Quaker life within our Yearly Meeting.
This work is currently focussed in six main areas:
- Faith and practice
- Diversity & inclusion
- Children & young people
- Meeting house staff
- Outreach
- Pastoral care
Previously, much of the work of Quaker Life was carried out by separate committees responsible for specific areas of work. A new way of working has been developed which recognizes the overlapping nature of many of the issues and the need to address them in an integrated way. Quaker Life Central Committee is now responsible for discerning, prioritising and co-ordinating all the work, which is carried out by staff, supported by time limited working groups and by Friends drawn from the new Quaker Life Network.
Quaker Life also covers the work of Swarthmoor Hall [external website], pilgrimages to 1652 country and Friends House Library.
Further information
- Support for Meetings services available & contacts [PDF: 80kb - opens in new window]
- Outreach exhibition display squares [PDF: 1.02MB - new window]
- Quaker Life Network
- Quaker Life Representative Council
- More Quaker Life Factsheets
Explorations
Discover and develop the gifts in your meeting:www.quaker.org.uk/explorations
Representative Council
Quaker Life Reprsentative Council is a gathering of Area Meeting representatives to discuss, explore and share information about Quaker Life areas of work in support of Meetings.
Study guide
Quaker Life has prepared a booklet of study materials based on the Quaker Identity and the Heart of Our Faith conference held in 2008. Quaker Life Study Guide [PDF: 2MB - new window]
Contacts
A handy reference list of support for meetings contacts provided by Quaker Life.
