Bournemouth Quaker Meeting

22/05/2026

🏳️‍🌈Space Youth Project hold regular Family Days for young people in Dorset who are *trans, non-binary and questioning, and their families. The next is on 30th May at a Bournemouth location, with the theme Mental Health and Wellbeing. Booking essential -
E: [email protected]
or T: 01202 205 279.
*trans - short for transgender. People whose gender identity differs from the s*x they were assigned at birth
*non-binary - someone who does not identify as exclusively as a man or a woman
*questioning - the process of exploring your own s*xual orientation and/or gender identity.

22/05/2026

22/05/2026

☕️ We're looking for volunteers to join our team 🍰

Would you like to:
☕️ Gain practical experience in a café setting
🤝 Get involved in your community
🌳 Help bring our local parks to life

Our charity runs community cafes at Alexandra Park Café in Poole, Redhill Park Cafe, Winton Park Café, and Boscombe Chine Gardens Cafe in Bournemouth - and we'd love to hear from you.

Full training will be given in the role.

If you're interested in finding out more, please contact us on: [email protected]

For more information about our cafes, visit: parksfoundation.org.uk/cafes/

22/05/2026

Tonight at Social Canteen 🍽️

Join us from 5–7pm at Garden Rooms Café for a friendly and safe community space.

Enjoy a hot meal, good company and a welcoming atmosphere for just a £3 minimum donation.

Everyone is welcome — come along, bring a friend, and be part of the community 💚

22/05/2026

Want to make a real difference in our community? 💚

Become a Friend of Grounded today, you’ll be helping us continue our work across Grounded projects 🌱

As a monthly donor, you’ll also receive:
✨ Regular email updates on the impact of your support
✨ A free PDF growing guide
✨ 25% off Grounded workshops

And of course, your name will be added to our beautiful Friends of Grounded Tree, a growing symbol of the amazing community helping our work flourish 🌳

Every contribution, big or small, helps us keep growing and creating positive change in our community!

Ready to join? Scan the QR code, click the link in our bio, or visit the comments below 🌿

22/05/2026

We believe that every human being is entitled to a space in the world which enhances their dignity - Australia Yearly Meeting epistle 2003

17/05/2026

This post was discussed after Meeting for Worship this morning! Have we lost the art of plain speaking? Or was it never that plain anyway?

When the meeting for business devolves....

15/05/2026

Featuring Chris, Kate and Gill from Bournemouth, Wimborne and Poole meetings!

Hope is...
Growing food together, laughing and learning
Sharing resources like clothes, bikes, even musical instruments!
Making the joys of reading accessible to all
Clothing to play sport and succeed at job interviews
A friendly voice in the loneliest of times

And so much more! We’ve gathered 17 stories of hope from up and down the country into one inspiring blog post. It’s our act of hope as partners in the Million Acts of Hope A Million Acts of Hope campaign. https://qva.org.uk/million-acts-of-hope/

We’re so grateful to Friends who shared their volunteering story and to Quakers in Britain for helping to get the word out.

But we want to know - what does hope mean to you? Please leave a comment! ⬇️

The QVA team

15/05/2026

Van Drivers, your community needs you.
We are in desperate need of some more van drivers who can commit to volunteering one morning a week.
Meet Richard, one of our long standing volunteer drivers. He describes his role as being great fun and enjoys mixing with others. He also said that knowing he is helping others gives him a great sense of achievement as does knowing he is giving back.

15/05/2026

We need to let go of certainty, the certainty that we know the answer. We need to let go of the outcome, and let the Spirit move: Friends who were in Friends House meeting room will long remember the improvised cheerful hymn-singing when the Zoom sound failed. Can we be open not only to this kind of gentle wind, but also to the storm that sweeps through and blows down trees, leaving room for new seeds to sprout? Let us hold spaces which are safe not just for the still small voice, but also for the wind, the storms, the power that makes us uncomfortable and which stirs us to action.

Do we still have the power to turn the world upside-down? Let it be so!

Extract from the Epistle of Britain Yearly Meeting 2026
Find the full written text at: https://www.quaker.org.uk/ym/documents