Basingstoke Quakers

19/05/2026

This dreamy, sing-along tale, is about a Sleepy Bear who after enjoying a wonderful summer eating berries and humming his summer song, snuggles up in a moss filled warm hollow log to go to sleep... But he can't!

19/05/2026

Our Act of Hope: sharing your volunteering stories Quaker Voluntary Action (QVA) is an official partner of A Million Acts Of Hope and this blog post […]

18/05/2026

We had been talking for an hour and a half with a clergyman neighbour, and afterwards I sat by the fire and thought. He had maintained that war has not as yet been grown out of, and that God still uses it as a means of training His children. As I thought over this, old thoughts and memories awoke from sleep. I remembered the familiar words about William Penn’s sword – ‘Wear it as long as thou canst’: and it seemed clear to me that if William Penn had given it up from self-interest or cowardice, or for any reason short of the ‘witness of God in his own soul’, he would have been wrong. And then the thought extended itself from the life of one man to the life of mankind, and I remembered a sentence in the Epistle to Diognetus: ‘What the soul is in the body, that Christians are in the world’. Then I seemed to see that war cannot rightly come to an end from self-interest or cowardice or any worldly reason but only because men and women, by one and one, without waiting for the others, have become loyal to the spirit of Christ.

Marion C Fox, 1914
Quaker Faith and Practice 24.13

18/05/2026

In this year’s Swarthmore Lecture, Stuart Masters focused on the faith and practice of the first Friends and explored how their complex legacy presents Quakers today with a range of challenging choices and dilemmas. Join Stuart in these day events to explore the main lecture themes in more detail.

Find out more and book: https://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/courses/tangled-roots-engaging-with-the-2026-swarthmore-lecture-edinburgh/

18/05/2026

18/05/2026

This session explores the lives of Margaret Fell's seven daughters through their personal documents, tracing their connection to Swarthmoor Hall and the ways they faced challenges such as imprisonment, childbirth, and bereavement, while supporting their mother.
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18/05/2026

18/05/2026

Living our Peace Testimony - a gathering in York on 13th June 2026 - Reflect Support Connect Learn Discussion Stalls Music Food - Read more and register: nfpb.org.uk/lopt2026

18/05/2026

18/05/2026

For centuries, Quakers have stood apart from the warring world with a radical, spiritually grounded commitment to peace. This week, we explore the history of the Peace Testimony and how its living wisdom can guide us through modern conflict.