Ludlow Quaker Meeting

10/01/2025

Here is a place children can be signposted to reality, within them selves and with relation to others in a community.

The Open University (OU) is offering a peace education course for the first time, thanks to a partnership between OU staff and Quakers in Britain.

31/12/2024

Some friends from Ludlow Meeting would prefer that the pages here on Ludlow Quaker Meeting site only have posts which relate to what is happening at Ludlow Meeting. So to start the New Year I shall post articles, letters, readings and other Quaker information on my personal page, Barbara Mark. I have another site called Hatty Baggins but I do not use this any more. It was for my business ( where all my involvement in facebook started!!)
Please do join me on my personal site and share your thoughts and discussions with me there.

28/11/2024

I hope friends will hold our government to follow the law and abide by the International Court of Justice
Barbara Mark

Today the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for crimes against humanity and war crimes.

At the same time, Israel continues to challenge the International Court of Justice (ICJ) orders of January, March and May 2024 that explicitly call on Israel to end all genocidal acts committed against the Palestinians in Gaza. The ICJ Court orders are binding and thus create international legal obligations for any party to whom the provisional measures are addressed. This again makes it clear that the U.S. — and all states providing military assistance to Israel — must end their complicity in these heinous crimes by imposing an arms embargo on Israel, demanding an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, and pushing for accountability for all war crimes and crimes against humanity that have been committed.

19/11/2024

Barbara Mark has shared this quote sent by Quakers in Britain at this time of COP29

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19/11/2024

This post is shared by Barbara Mark as we have at least two friends involved with Quaker Art Network

Creative Writing Group: Poetry Workshop with Peter Street
November 18 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Join Peter Street for a poetry workshop. Peter has published multiple books and also writes as a war poet. He has overcome challenges and offers great insight.

This Guardian article describes Peter’s writing career. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2008/dec/17/peter-street-poetry

‘His life story is that of an itinerant autodidact, with shades of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and Thomas Hardy’s Jude. But Peter Street has defied decades of hardship and disability to become a war poet and BBC writer-in-residence’.

Sign up free by emailing [email protected]

19/11/2024

Ludlow friends support Madagascar, so it is great to see that mentioned here.

11/11/2024

On Sunday 10th November Ludlow Quakers laid a wreath of white popies. Something which has been done for many years now. Photos attached.
After that they held a Peace vigil in Castle Square. Photo attached. This was done last year as well
Thank you Cynthia Prior for the photos
compiled by Barbara Mark

01/11/2024

Ludlow Quakers were invited to a thank you party by the Ukrainians refugees who have been using our building for the two years or so.
It was delightful and the food was amazing!
compiled by Barbara Mark

01/11/2024

Ludlow Quaker Meeting put on sevaral displays during Quaker Week.
There was a display in Leominster library. ( photo attached) There were displays in Ludlow Library and in a book shop in town and at the Meeting House there was this speldid map of George Fox and Quaker movements in our area.
compiled by Barbara Mark

27/10/2024

QAN has done some amazing things

Activist Alphabet
November 1 @ 2:00 pm - November 30 2024 @ 3:30 pm

Activist Alphabet is an exhibition of 26 prints and poems created as a response to climate change. The aim of the Alphabet is to help people connect with their own joy in the natural world and personal memories of climate change. I think we are in a crisis of relationships with each other, with nature and the planet. We need to take care of our home, The Earth.

https://quakerarts.net/event/activist-alphabet/

27/10/2024

This came through from Quaker United Nations