Events Calendar

10 January 2026 at 10:00

Meeting for Worship for Business

Venue: Online

Members of HIAQM are encouraged to take part in business meetings as often as they can. Attenders are also warmly welcome, please inform the Clerk in advance, and permission is normally given.

What happens at an AM Meeting for Worship for Business? If this is your first time, you may find the introductory notes below helpful. 

The zoom link and papers in advance are circulated beforehand by email. If you haven't received them, please email our clerk at  clerkhiaqm@gmail.com and ask to be added to the list. 

17 January 2026 at 10:00 – 13:00

Diversity and Inclusion: Beginning the Conversation

Venue: Online

Diversity and Inclusion: Beginning the Conversation
with Ivan Hutnik and Tracey Martin
Saturday 13 December 2025 and Saturday 17 January 2026, 10:00-13:00

This free online event is open to all members and attenders within Hampshire and Islands Area Meeting.

This workshop aims to support meetings who are beginning to have important and challenging discussions about diversity and inclusion in our Quaker communities. We will reflect on our own experience and learn about some of the times when Quakers have failed to be a fully inclusive community. We will
explore the power that we do or don’t have, and learn about ‘intersectionality’. We will end by reflecting on what next steps your Quaker community might take to become more inclusive.

To register please email David Curtis: communicationshiaqm@gmail.com

19 January 2026 at 19:00 – 20:30

Elders' Mondays: Sharing Our Stories - "Our Spiritual Practices"

Venue: Online

We hope to share with each other what practices help us to ‘get into the right place’ / ‘prepare hearts and minds’/ become more ‘centred’ in our lives. Are we just relying on an hour at Sunday Meeting for Worship to sustain us, to get us into the ‘right place’? Or do we need to struggle every day to get there and to grow ‘inwardly’? We have probably all found ways that help us: different ones at different times of our lives and in different situations. They may be spiritual practices, from the wealth of different spiritual traditions, that might also challenge us, or other ‘beneficial’ practices which do not sound spiritual at all in themselves but which, we know, are good for our soul.

We will use worship-sharing mode in the session as well as making time for questions and dialogue.

From QF&P 2.22 by Thomas Kelly: ‘...Mental habits of inward orientation must be established...’ Thich Nhat Hanh: ‘Peace is all around us and within us. Once we learn to touch this peace we will be healed and transformed. It is not a matter of faith, it is a matter of practice.’ To add: The more we find ourselves healed and transformed, the more we may become ‘conduits’ for healing and transformation around us.

We meet online using the Winchester Meeting zoom link - please contact Winchester wardens in advance if needed.

10 February 2026 at 19:00 – 20:30

Quakers Talking South West

Venue: Zoom

Quakers Talking Winter into Spring 2026

These monthly sessions are held online and open to Friends in the south and southwest of England.  An opportunity to discuss topics of interest with Friends from other areas.

There is no need to book. Just drop in.   Use the same Zoom link for all sessions. 7 pm-8.30pm 

https://quaker.zoom.us/j/83755297849?pwd=aWo9Yw8oTA76kNLq7uwN3ZVFWPKetd.1

Tuesday 10th of February – Weaving Trust

Martin Wall will share his experiences of holding a weaving trust event in Taunton

Tuesday 10th of March – Antisemitism Guidance

Challenging- antisemitism: Engaging with the new guide.  Friends are encouraged to read the guide beforehand  challenging-antisemitism

Tuesday 14th April – Hospicing Quakerism 

If Quakerism is dying out, what would a good death look like?

Join Zoom Meeting

https://quaker.zoom.us/j/83755297849?pwd=aWo9Yw8oTA76kNLq7uwN3ZVFWPKetd.1

Meeting ID: 837 5529 7849

Passcode: 350449

In Friendship, 

Jac, Rita, Hugh, and Moya

JacB@quaker.org.uk  ritas@quaker.org.uk  hughd@quaker.org.uk moya@quaker.org.uk

14 February 2026 at 10:00

Threshing Meeting

Venue: Online

This will be a threshing meeting to consider options for joining with neighbouring Area Meetings to form a single charity. Please read the attached document for guidance on how the meeting will be conducted.

The purpose of this meeting is consider the state of our area meeting and to determine which collaborative option (if any)  might be the best way forward at the current time. 

We will soon need to make a response to the meetings in our local development area regarding future collaboration and also decide whether we wish to continue participation in the South east working group or work with our local development area meetings. 

It is important that we should hear from all local meetings and that Friends should be aware of the issues involved. Please encourage Friends locally, particularly your representatives,  to consider the background documents which have been sent to everyone on the AM circulation list.

The zoom link and papers in advance are circulated beforehand by email. If you haven't received them, please email our clerk at  clerkhiaqm@gmail.com and ask to be added to the list. 

Members of HIAQM are encouraged to take part in business meetings as often as they can. Attenders are also warmly welcome, please inform the Clerk in advance, and permission is normally given.