Romford Quaker Meeting

11/03/2025

Come and Listen!

Mark, Mick and Paulette will be playing at Romford Haverfolk Club Wednesday 16th of April taking funds for Medicins san Frontier.

02/12/2024

Dear Friends,
please note there will be NO MEETING on Christmas Day this year.

04/08/2024

Today Romford Local Meeting commemorated Hiroshima day with friends from as far afield as Canterbury, and neighbouring Wanstead. We were also joined by Anglican friends from Enfield, and other Christian churches.

During our Meeting for Worship the usual floral display was replaced with our precious ginkgo tree which has been grown from the seed of a ginkgo tree from Hiroshima that survived the unspeakable bomb.

Hope survives!

Our commemoration was support by our friend Tony addressing the gathering with a short lesson about the dropping of the atomic bomb.

Following our Meeting for Worship all present took part in a shared meal and fellowship.

Then, in the garden friend Melvyn from Wanstead LM recited some very poignant poetry before Mark, Mick, Norma and Paulette performed their “Peace Piece”.

Then Mike from Romford Haverfolk club kept us going with some song of his choice which he sung accompanying himself with the guitar and accordion.

From the bottom of our hearts we thank everyone who came today to help us commemorate Hiroshima day and to reaffirm our commitment to the peace testimony.

19/05/2024

To all at Romford Haverfolk Club

with heartfelt thanks for your kind donation in memory of our beloved Nora.

10/05/2024

Protest outside the Town Hall at 1830 on May 15th against disabled school transport cuts!

25/04/2024

Quakers oppose war and weapons of mass destruction.

Nuclear Near Misses

From technical glitches to fateful split-second decisions, the world has come to the brink of nuclear war more times than you might think

22/04/2024

We do not own the world, and its riches are not ours to dispose of at will. Show a loving consideration for all creatures, and seek to maintain the beauty and variety of the world. Work to ensure that our increasing power over nature is used responsibly, with reverence for life. Rejoice in the splendour of God’s continuing creation.

14/04/2024

Knowing and accepting ourselves

When I left school I set out into the world determined that nothing as small as the Society of Friends would hold me. ‘I want the real world’, I said. ‘Friends are good people, aunts and uncles and cousins, they are friends of the family to whom I must always be polite. They do not drink or smoke or swear, they do not lose their tempers. They do not love money, they do not worship success (well, only a little bit), they do not compete, they do not gamble, they do not fight. They do not do what they want to do. If they want to do something very much they deeply suspect it is not the right thing to do. But I am not like that at all. I would like to drink and smoke, to make money, to be successful. I want to fight and to win; I want to please myself, to enjoy myself, to be myself. I am talented and clever and malicious; I will escape, for I am clearly not a Quaker, and find out what it is I am. I am no-one’s daughter and no-one’s granddaughter’, I said defiantly, ‘I am myself.’ And I marched down Shaftesbury Avenue waving my banner with only a casual glance at Westminster Meeting House.

What I am telling is a classic story but we must admit that every cliché contains profound truth and a story is classic because so many people recognise it as true. ‘Father’ I said, ‘give me my inheritance and I will go out and seek a fortune.’ So I took my inheritance and went out and spent it. When it was all gone I came to myself and, finding myself somewhat diminished, faced with demands I found difficult to fulfil, I went to meeting.

‘Here I am’, I said.

‘That’s all right.’

‘Just for a bit of a sit-down.’

‘Whatever you need.’

‘You mustn’t expect anything from me,’ I said, ‘I can only bring a need.’

‘Whatever you have.’

Dorothy Nimmo, 1979

23/03/2024

Canterbury Quakers Have a beautiful building in a beautiful town. Next time we visit we hope to see the inside!

19/03/2024

One of our Friends attended Discovering Quakers this evening and tells us what a relaxed welcoming and interhours it was.

If you are interested in Discovering Quakers here’s the link

Join our weekly online session to hear from a Quaker about how being a Quaker has enriched their life.

16/03/2024

We are Quakers. We don't sell porridge. We sit in silence for 60 minutes once a week. We do this to listen for the promptings of love within us and let them guide our lives. We're environmentalists, we're non-conformists, and we believe in living life adventurously.

16/03/2024

https://info.discoveringquakers.org.uk/7-facts-about-quakers/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=Conversions&utm_campaign=Interest&utm_content=Version+Two+-+7+Facts

We are Quakers. We don't sell porridge. We sit in silence for 60 minutes once a week. We do this to listen for the promptings of love within us and let them guide our lives. We're environmentalists, we're non-conformists, and we believe in living life adventurously.