3 April 2025 at 14:30
Venue: Online
Join us for our weekly Quaker social get-together on zoom! This group started with Friends from Southampton Meeting during covid lock-down, and we enjoy it so much that we have just kept going. Everyone is welcome from across the area and beyond, and do feel free to drop in and out as you like.
3 April 2025 at 18:30
Venue: Online
‘Experiment with Light’ is a Quaker practice which is based on early Friends’ discoveries.
It was devised in 1996 by Quaker and theologian Rex Ambler following his study of early Friends’ writings. He wanted to discover what it was that made them so sure, so centred, so willing to suffer privations to keep alive their faith. He discovered a process by which the Light may be accessed. Experiment with Light is a Quaker Recognised Body in Britain, see the website here for more details.
Please email welcome@winchesterquakers.org.uk for the zoom link.
8 April 2025 at 19:00 – 20:30
Venue: Zoom
Discussion with Friends from across South and SouthWest around 'Diversity of Belief' . 7pm Start
9 April 2025 at 19:00
Venue: Online
We meet online on the second Wednesday of the month from 7pm to 8:30pm . All welcome. The zoom details will be sent out by email - please contact Helen at helenlmoore109@gmail.com
We welcome this month's guest speaker
KATE DAVIES
Kate is a member of Whidbey Island (Washington, USA) Meeting and a Buddhist. She is the author of Intrinsic Hope: Living Courageously in Troubled Times, a senior fellow at the Whidbey Institute, and professor emeritus at Antioch University.
10 April 2025 at 14:30
Venue: Online
Join us for our weekly Quaker social get-together on zoom! This group started with Friends from Southampton Meeting during covid lock-down, and we enjoy it so much that we have just kept going. Everyone is welcome from across the area and beyond, and do feel free to drop in and out as you like.
12 April 2025 at 11:00
Venue: Southampton and 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 April 2025 at 14:30
Venue: Online
Join us for our weekly Quaker social get-together on zoom! This group started with Friends from Southampton Meeting during covid lock-down, and we enjoy it so much that we have just kept going. Everyone is welcome from across the area and beyond, and do feel free to drop in and out as you like.
24 April 2025 at 14:30
Venue: Online
Join us for our weekly Quaker social get-together on zoom! This group started with Friends from Southampton Meeting during covid lock-down, and we enjoy it so much that we have just kept going. Everyone is welcome from across the area and beyond, and do feel free to drop in and out as you like.
1 May 2025 at 14:30
Venue: Online
Join us for our weekly Quaker social get-together on zoom! This group started with Friends from Southampton Meeting during covid lock-down, and we enjoy it so much that we have just kept going. Everyone is welcome from across the area and beyond, and do feel free to drop in and out as you like.
8 May 2025 at 14:30
Venue: Online
Join us for our weekly Quaker social get-together on zoom! This group started with Friends from Southampton Meeting during covid lock-down, and we enjoy it so much that we have just kept going. Everyone is welcome from across the area and beyond, and do feel free to drop in and out as you like.
8 May 2025 at 19:00
Venue: Online
How could we simplify our Area Meeting structure and reduce the number of role holders?
Lesley Richards of Church Stretton Meeting will give a presentation about establishing a multi-AM charity. All members of Area Meeting are encouraged to attend in advance of discussing the way forward for our Area Meeting on 14th June.
10 May 2025 at 14:30 – 16:30
Venue: Boscombe Pier
Come along for a day out at Bournemouth beach where we can meet up with others from across our Area Meeting, and our neighbouring Friends from Bournemouth Coastal AM! We will be on the beach to the east side of Boscombe Pier.
There is free parking available a ten minute walk away at the meeting house, or for those with access needs there is disabled parking nearby.
As the tide goes out from about 1.30pm we will be creating a sixty-foot wide labyrinth in the sand. This is part of Beach of Dreams , a UK wide community arts festival expressing our hopes and concerns for the coastal environment. We plan to hold a short meeting for worship around or near the labyrinth some time between 2.30 and 4.30pm, and to engage with members of the public. You might wish to come early and bring a picnic!
It is an opportunity to start conversations with people we meet, and to hold a visible Quaker presence where we express something of our values. In our engagement with other beach goers, we offer this simple activity which invites them to try the experience of moving slowly inward to a central still point - giving a taste and echo of what we do in Meeting for Worship.
13 May 2025
Venue: Zoom
How can ideas around Faith Play help us explore our faith and spiritual connection? Exploration with Friends from South and Southwest. 7pm Start
14 May 2025 at 19:00
Venue: Online
We meet online on the second Wednesday of the month from 7pm to 8:30pm . All welcome. The zoom details will be sent out by email - please contact Helen at helenlmoore109@gmail.com
We welcome this month's guest speaker -
LINDSEY FIELDER-COOK
Lindsey is Interim Deputy Director and Representative for Climate Change at the Quaker United Nations Office in Geneva. This is a great opportunity for us to hear what is happening on a worldwide level regarding climate action from the Quaker perspective. More details to come on this talk in the near future.
15 May 2025 at 14:30
Venue: Online
Join us for our weekly Quaker social get-together on zoom! This group started with Friends from Southampton Meeting during covid lock-down, and we enjoy it so much that we have just kept going. Everyone is welcome from across the area and beyond, and do feel free to drop in and out as you like.
19 May 2025 at 19:00
Venue: Online
In our last session, we were joined by Cherry Simpkin of the Friends Fellowship of Healing and Anne Simpson from Claridge House, who shared with us about their work and purposes in one of the largest of the Quaker interest groups.
This month we will be joined by Eleanor Tew of the Quaker Disability Equality Group, which works toward the full inclusion of disabled people and carers in all aspects of Quaker life; and by Sean Langton of Romsey Meeting, co-clerk of Quaker Rainbow, which brings together people of diverse sexual and/or gender identities within Quakers in Britain.
We expect this to be as interesting and informative as the previous evenings in the series, and look forward to you joining us. This will be a short talk plus the chance for Q&A after.
22 May 2025 at 14:30
Venue: Online
Join us for our weekly Quaker social get-together on zoom! This group started with Friends from Southampton Meeting during covid lock-down, and we enjoy it so much that we have just kept going. Everyone is welcome from across the area and beyond, and do feel free to drop in and out as you like.
3 July 2025 at 14:30
Venue: Online
Join us for our weekly Quaker social get-together on zoom! This group started with Friends from Southampton Meeting during covid lock-down, and we enjoy it so much that we have just kept going. Everyone is welcome from across the area and beyond, and do feel free to drop in and out as you like.
9 July 2025
Venue: Online
We meet online on the second Wednesday of the month from 7pm to 8:30pm . All welcome. The zoom details will be sent out by email - please contact Helen at helenlmoore109@gmail.com
The Area Meeting Sustainability Action Group (AMSAG) was formed in December 2021. Since then we have frequently invited guest speakers to our monthly meetings. We've covered subjects as diverse as energy, insulation, food, transport, ecocide, water, population, book reviews, energy use in our local meetings, personal sustainability, activism, coastal erosion, climate justice, river restoration, and the Quaker response to the the abuse of our planet.
10 July 2025 at 14:30
Venue: Online
Join us for our weekly Quaker social get-together on zoom! This group started with Friends from Southampton Meeting during covid lock-down, and we enjoy it so much that we have just kept going. Everyone is welcome from across the area and beyond, and do feel free to drop in and out as you like.
12 July 2025 at 11:00
Venue: Alton Meeting House and Online (blended)
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 July 2025 at 14:30
Venue: Online
Join us for our weekly Quaker social get-together on zoom! This group started with Friends from Southampton Meeting during covid lock-down, and we enjoy it so much that we have just kept going. Everyone is welcome from across the area and beyond, and do feel free to drop in and out as you like.
24 July 2025 at 14:30
Venue: Online
Join us for our weekly Quaker social get-together on zoom! This group started with Friends from Southampton Meeting during covid lock-down, and we enjoy it so much that we have just kept going. Everyone is welcome from across the area and beyond, and do feel free to drop in and out as you like.
31 July 2025 at 14:30
Venue: Online
Join us for our weekly Quaker social get-together on zoom! This group started with Friends from Southampton Meeting during covid lock-down, and we enjoy it so much that we have just kept going. Everyone is welcome from across the area and beyond, and do feel free to drop in and out as you like.
7 August 2025 at 14:30
Venue: Online
Join us for our weekly Quaker social get-together on zoom! This group started with Friends from Southampton Meeting during covid lock-down, and we enjoy it so much that we have just kept going. Everyone is welcome from across the area and beyond, and do feel free to drop in and out as you like.
7 August 2025 at 18:30
Venue: Online
‘Experiment with Light’ is a Quaker practice which is based on early Friends’ discoveries.
It was devised in 1996 by Quaker and theologian Rex Ambler following his study of early Friends’ writings. He wanted to discover what it was that made them so sure, so centred, so willing to suffer privations to keep alive their faith. He discovered a process by which the Light may be accessed. Experiment with Light is a Quaker Recognised Body in Britain, see the website here for more details.
Please email winchesterquakerwarden@gmail.com for the zoom link.
13 August 2025
Venue: Online
We meet online on the second Wednesday of the month from 7pm to 8:30pm . All welcome. The zoom details will be sent out by email - please contact Helen at helenlmoore109@gmail.com
The Area Meeting Sustainability Action Group (AMSAG) was formed in December 2021. Since then we have frequently invited guest speakers to our monthly meetings. We've covered subjects as diverse as energy, insulation, food, transport, ecocide, water, population, book reviews, energy use in our local meetings, personal sustainability, activism, coastal erosion, climate justice, river restoration, and the Quaker response to the the abuse of our planet.
14 August 2025 at 14:30
Venue: Online
Join us for our weekly Quaker social get-together on zoom! This group started with Friends from Southampton Meeting during covid lock-down, and we enjoy it so much that we have just kept going. Everyone is welcome from across the area and beyond, and do feel free to drop in and out as you like.
21 August 2025 at 14:30
Venue: Online
Join us for our weekly Quaker social get-together on zoom! This group started with Friends from Southampton Meeting during covid lock-down, and we enjoy it so much that we have just kept going. Everyone is welcome from across the area and beyond, and do feel free to drop in and out as you like.
28 August 2025 at 14:30
Venue: Online
Join us for our weekly Quaker social get-together on zoom! This group started with Friends from Southampton Meeting during covid lock-down, and we enjoy it so much that we have just kept going. Everyone is welcome from across the area and beyond, and do feel free to drop in and out as you like.