6 February 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.
6 February 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.
8 February 2025 at 10:00 – 12:30
Venue: Online
Everyone is welcome to this area-wide online workshop.
In his talk at the recent Future of British Quakerism conference, Ben Dandelion asks "Are we open to spiritual transformation, personally and as an organisation?"
After an opening period of worship we will watch Ben’s talk together, which lasts 50 minutes. Those who have already heard the talk may prefer to join us from 11am, when there will be opportunities for reflection and sharing both in small groups, and in the wider circle.
A transcript of Ben's talk is available here.
10 February 2025 at 19:00
Venue: Online
An opportunity to get together across our area and share ideas or raise questions about outreach. What is working well in your local meeting? What do you need more support with? What ideas or suggestions do you have for outreach at a local or area level?
12 February 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
RUTH KETTLE-FRISBY
Ruth is a Quaker and activist in her local community involved with the local Arts Council and Havering Climate Coalition. She helped to form Clear The Air Havering, and has organised a community art exhibition called 'Gasping for Air' in Rainham. She has researched and written about climate justice in relation to racism, sexism and ableism for the Eva Koch scholarship.
13 February 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.
17 February 2025 at 19:00
Venue: Online
We are inviting people from different Quaker interest groups to meet us and talk about their work once a month on Mondays. This is an opportunity to learn about these groups and ask questions about their aims and what they do. You are warmly invited to join us.
On Monday 17 February at 7pm, we’ll be joined by Tracey Allen, Director of QCEA (Quaker Concern for European Affairs), and Alan Pleydell, Clerk of Quaker House Moscow. The Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) and Friends House Moscow both have websites that are well worth visiting, showing a remarkable range of interesting projects. See https://www.qcea.org/ and https://friendshousemoscow.org/
For more info about Elders Mondays, or if you would like to suggest a speaker, please contact Dorothy here.
20 February 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.
27 February 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 March 2025 at 11:00 – 13:00
Venue: Jersey Meeting House and Online
Every year, usually the first Saturday in March, we hold our annual Healing Day.
Our focus is to surround people and situations in need of healing with God's love and hold these concerns in the Light. We ask to be used as channels for healing, putting love into action and sending Light to where it is needed.
We include our family and friends, our community, societies and conflicts throughout the world, the environment and all life on our fragile planet.
Others from the Area Meeting are welcome to join us. They can come in and leave as they like, so long as they are muted. More information here
6 March 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 March 2025 at 10:00
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.
11 March 2025 at 19:00 – 20:30
Venue: Zoom
Discussions on theme of 'welcome and belonging' with Friends from across South and Southwest. 7pm start.
12 March 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.
13 March 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.
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.
10 May 2025
Venue: Bournemouth Beach.
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 creating a sixty-foot wide labyrinth in the sand, as part of a UK wide community arts festival expressing our hopes and concerns for the coastal environment.
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.
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.
29 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.