Croydon Quakers

04/12/2025

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/dec/03/a-moment-that-changed-me-my-unbearable-grief-kept-growing-until-i-found-solace-in-a-silent-community

After my dad died, I tried to cope by keeping busy: a day job, a side hustle, socialising and working out. But I kept bursting into tears in public. At a Quaker meeting, it was as if someone had turned down the volume of the world

22/04/2024

Please share with your networks. Quakers in Britain are looking to fund a school to become a centre of excellence in peer-led conflict resolution.



https://www.quaker.org.uk/our-work/peace/peace-education/talking-works Croydon Quakers Streatham Friends Meeting House Kingston Quaker Centre London Quakers

11/11/2023

11/11/2023

All welcome; all faiths and none. Silent Vigil. Sunday 19th Nov 3.00pm for 30 minutes. Sutton High Street.

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Croydon Quakers London Quakers

14/10/2023

Great to see Joyce's article in the Friend this week:

Seventy five years ago – 21 June, 1948 – about a thousand passengers stepped off HMT Empire Windrush onto Tilbury Docks. The majority, 802 people, were from...

05/10/2023

Westminster Quakers meeting for young people, if you’d like to check it out.

11/09/2023

BREAKING: Multiple Quakers arrested while worshipping in silence outside huge DSEI arms fair at the ExCel Centre. We believe God is in everyone. Killing or maiming people is not morally justifiable, nor is the trade in arms. We uphold those arrested during a peaceful religious service, honouring those affected by weapons of war.

08/09/2023

Excited to see our Hall open tomorrow for a 'Saturday School' style event as part of the Open London festival: "this session, supported by Theatrum Mundi, will take place in the Croydon Quaker's Adult School Hall and support participants to map out spaces of care & resistance across Croydon."

Assembled in the format and spirit of a Saturday School, this session, supported by Theatrum Mundi, will take place in the Croydon Quaker's Adult School Hall and support participants to map out spaces of care & resistance across Croydon.

08/09/2023

Sutton Quakers is delighted to invite you to a free evening of storytelling for adults as told by Cindylou Turner-Taylor

24/08/2023

Why do Quakers sit in silence? Here are 7 interesting facts about Quakers - not the people who sell porridge! Learn more: https://info.discoveringquakers.org.uk/f/sutton-croydon/

16/08/2023

Look for us if you go to this year's Carshalton Ecofair on Bank Holiday Monday (28th August). We'll have a Sutton Quakers stall, to have a chat, ask questions, pick up a leaflet or recycled greeting cards.

The Ecofair is a great event, with dozens of stalls, music, food and places to relax and chat. Hope to see you there! 🥰

London Quakers Croydon Quakers Kingston Quaker Centre Carshalton EcoFair

https://www.ecolocal.org.uk/ecofair/

https://www.facebook.com/envfair

23/07/2023

As the new Oppenheimer film is released, Quakers in Britain, as part of the Peace Education Network (PEN), have released lessons examining the legacy of early atomic scientists.