Roots of Resistance is a community of Friends who prepared to take creative, vibrant, nonviolent action to resist the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair, alongside other faith groups on…
Storytelling on Amersham Heritage Sunday
Our storyteller had a wonderful time on Heritage Sunday, sharing our Quaker stories with visiting adults and children. Local stories ranged from: William Penn’s courtship of his young wife, ‘Sweet Guli Springett’…
Reprising the William Penn centenary concert
William Penn in the Steeple House Musicians Jane Faulkner, Esther Cavett and Victoria Barrett, and narrators Catriona Troth and Martin Pounce have been invited to reprise their Noting Penn concert –…
Penn Mead Trial at Friends House 4th October
On 4th October at Friends House at 7.00 pm. As part of Quaker Week there is to be a reading of the dramatised transcript of the Penn and Meade trial. This trial established the independence…
Heritage Open Days 2019
Several of our Meeting Houses will be open to visitors are various times during Heritage Week: Amersham: Sunday 8th September: Amersham Meeting House will be open in the afternoon, with a display…
Kew Gardens and the Art of Dan Chihuly
On Wednesday 3rd July, fifteen of us boarded a minibus at Amersham Meeting House for a trip to Kew Gardens. By happy coincidence, every one of our local meetings was represented and…
Building a Community: Jordans Village at 100
Extended version of the script from the concert to celebrate Jordans’ Centenary – written by Catriona Troth. With grateful thanks to the archive at the Jordans Estate Office for the photographs and…
Celebrating the Centenary of Jordans Village
On Sunday 23rd July, around seventy people attended a concert at Jordans Meeting House in celebration of the centenary of the founding of Jordans village. Music that ranged from Handel and Bach…
Aylesbury Quakers Protest BucksCC’s Investment in Fracking
Despite the current climate crisis, BucksCC Pension Fund has £85 million invested in fossil fuel companies, which are a key contributor to global warming. £35 million of this is invested in fracking.…
Latest News from Mellor House
As you know, Area Meeting used some of Hugh and Joyce Mellor’s legacy to buy a house in High Wycombe to be used by Wycombe Refugee Partnership as short-term temporary accommodation for…