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Yearly Meeting 2012

will be held from 25-28 May 2012 at Friends House, London. The children's programme (ages 0 - 12) will also be based at Friends House with the young people's programme (ages 12 - 15) and Junior Yearly Meeting's (ages 15 - 18) programme nearby.
More information

Information needed - Quaker Service Memorial Trust

QSMT urgently need the help of Local and Area Meetings to locate former members of the Friends Ambulance Unit, Friends Relief Service and families.
Exhibition of the wartime and post-war service (1939-48) by members of the FAU and FRS on display at Yearly Meeting, and afterwards at the entrance to the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire during the first two weeks in June. The memorial is due to be inaugurated on 15th September. We need information about those with FRS/FAU connections unable to attend the inauguration so that contact can be made about their experience and possible memorabilia. A QSMT website will shortly be launched.
Please contact Anthony Wilson, Clerk of QSMT, with any information, queries or donations: email gaialane60@hotmail.com, 10 Beacon Mews, Lichfield, Staffs, WS13 7AH, telephone 01543 258016.

A visit to Iona

See the story here

The Old Meeting House

Helen Allinson has recently found the pictures shown on the right (larger pictures and more details here). How many Friends remember worshipping here?

Sustainability

Read about our commitment to sustainability and practical action on the environment here.

Meeting for Sufferings

Minutes of the last MfS here

Epistle from Britain Yearly Meeting 2011

Read the main epistle here and the epistle of Junior Meeting here.

The Future of Quakerism in Britain

The prizewinning essays in the Friends Quarterly Essay Competition on "The Future of Quakerism in Britain" are available to read online here.