Photographs of areas within Hampshire and the Islands where local Quaker meetings are held.

Welcome to Quakers (the Religious Society of Friends) in Hampshire and the Islands (the Isle of Wight and the Channel Islands).

The menu above and on every page should be adequate to answer all your queries.
(If not, try us here: Ask a question.)

If Quakers are new to you, try our Quaker Quest pages.

Commonly asked questions are here with brief answers.

For events coming up, click here.

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Read the experience of a Hampshire Quaker on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, and also about other local Quakers, here.

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Jersey Quaker Quest October 2010 here

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Regional Gathering - September 25 in Southampton: The future of Friends in Britain - more here

This page updated on 26 August 2010
Events page updated on 26 August 2010 here

The key common ground among the whole world family of Friends:

(1) the centrality of inward encounter with God and revelation, and forms of worship that allow this to be experienced


(2) a way of doing church business based on the idea of corporate direct guidance rather than voting


(3) the spiritual equality of everyone


(4) the preference for peace and pacifism rather than war, and the commitment to other forms of social witness

(for source and more details see here)