Southampton Quaker Meeting

08/10/2025

Check out our upcoming event on 19th October and come along to meet Charlotte and Mal Woolford!

A short video promoting the forthcoming No Relation exhibition at Southampton Quaker Meeting House

16/08/2025

21/06/2025

This year’s Peace walk, organised by the Southampton Council of Faiths, will start from the Peace Fountain in East (Andrews) Park at 12.15 tomorrow. It takes on a special significance as its route includes the Medina Mosque, the Synagogue, and ends at our Meeting House, where Friends will be able to share our faith with others as well as offering the usual hos-pitality of drinks and refreshments. Peace work is not passivity, and in order to demonstrate where we stand on matters of Peace we have placed this sign outside of the Meeting house.

17/06/2025

Friends, Porstwood meeting for worship is tomorrow at October books 6.15-7pm with time for conversation afterwards until 7.30pm

22/04/2025

Friends this was broadcast yesterday on radio 4 and references Quakers quite a few times

Shahidha Bari with Bishop of Newcastle Helen-Ann Hartley, Bijan Omrani and Lamorna Ash.

06/04/2025

In response to last weeks’ events including the Westminster raid a petition has been launched calling for repeal of the legislation used

We want the government to repeal the Public Order Act 2023 which established several criminal offences in relation to protest. We think it is fundamentally undemocratic.

03/04/2025

A silent Quaker Meeting was held outside New Scotland Yard on Thursday, to bear witness to the police raid on Westminster Meeting House last week.

01/04/2025

Westminster Quaker Meeting House was raided this weekend by more than twenty officers, some carrying tasers. They smashed the door in and rounded up six young women who had gathered for an open meeting to discuss climate change and the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Britain Yearly Meeting have condemned the raid

https://www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/news/quakers-condemn-police-raid-on-westminster-meeting-house

A meeting for worship will be held outside New Scotland Yard this Thursday 3rd April at midday in response:

⏰ When? Thursday 3rd April, 12-1pm
📍 Where? Meet 11.45am, Chindit Memorial, Embankment Gardens, London
✊ Who? All welcome, people of all faiths and none.

Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.

28/03/2025

Police have raided a Quaker meeting house and arrested six young people meeting to discuss concerns about the climate crisis and the Gaza genocide.

On 27 March, more than 20 officers - some carrying tasers - reportedly forced their way into Westminster Meeting House in central London. According to Quakers in Britain, the officers “broke open the front door without warning or ringing the bell first, searching the whole building and arresting six women attending the meeting in a hired room”.

Paul Parker, recording clerk for Quakers in Britain, said: “No-one has been arrested in a Quaker meeting house in living memory.”
“This aggressive violation of our place of worship and the forceful removal of young people holding a protest group meeting clearly shows what happens when society criminalises protest.”

25/03/2025

Do not miss beach of dreams 🏖️🌊 Saturday May 10th in Boscombe. Creative outdoor outreach at an arts festival. Details below ⬇️