Welcoming newcomers
Four online guides are available to help Friends with planning outreach. Printed copies are not available but all can be downloaded.
A day with Friends
"Much of what we think of as outreach is concerned with making the Quaker way – who we are and the spiritual values by which we live – more visible and available to those looking for a spiritual home. We want to help people to find us, and we do this in many ways, both individually and collectively."
This resource is for Quaker meetings interested in running open and creative enquirers' events where everyone can share their stories and insights and explore the riches of the Quaker way together. It offers a simple framework for what the day might include, ideas for sessions and guidance on how to use the space you have.
Download A day with Friends (PDF)
Being Friends Together:
Sharing our meetings' stories
"Over recent years, an increasing number of Friends and meetings have recognised the importance of the link between the shared life of our meetings, our outreach and engagement with the wider world, and our own individual, inner life. Enriching and enlivening one will in turn give life, vitality and purpose to the others; they each feed and are nourished by one another."
This booklet will help Quaker communities to deepen and strengthen their life together. It gives examples of practices, experiences and aspects of the shared life of those meetings involved in the project, which help them to grow both individually and as communities.
Download Being Friends Together: Sharing our meetings' stories (PDF)
Outreach handbook
"One part of outreach is about getting people to their first Quaker meeting: making sure we tell people we exist; showing them how to find us and our meeting places; explaining who we are and what we're about, in a language that is accessible to all, whether from a Christian background, another faith background, or, increasingly, from a background of no religion at all."
The Outreach handbook provides a collection of ideas, stories, insights and experience of things that have worked for Friends and meetings as they have sought ways to do outreach and also become outreaching communities.
Download Outreach handbook (PDF)
New expressions of Quaker community
"If we were able to pare back to what is really necessary, might it be possible to explore different ways of being together? Might we be able to come together in ways that may be more open to seekers and enquirers, whilst still being authentically Quaker?"
This resource is for meetings interested in being a more creative community; who are open to exploring new ways of being a Quaker community; and who are seeking radical or fresh ways of engaging with local communities outside their meeting house door.
Download New expressions Quaker community (PDF)
Welcoming families
The following videos feature informal conversations exploring some key topics, with a particular focus on engaging families.
Engaging with families
with Alistair Fuller and Kathy Chandler
The role of joy
with Sophie Smith and Helen Chambers
Linking with our localities
with Jude Acton and Mel Cook
Promoting your outreach activities
with Naomi Major and Cato Pedder