Welcome

The next Area Meeting Newsletter is being edited by Romford Meeting.  Please send your contributions - articles, reflections, photos, poems etc - to

contact@romfordquakers.org.uk                   The deadline is 31st May 2025.

An interesting blog from the 2025 Swarthmore Lecturer can be found here

The group revising Quaker Faith and Practice for the next edition are consulting with LGBTQIA+ Friends on what they would like to see - please fill out the survey to contribute. More info @ https://quaker-rainbow.org.uk/

 

Directions to

new venue for

Bethnal Green

Meeting for Worship

Invitation to a zoom event about managing the money in a LAM

Open meeting for all interested on Monday 2 June at 7pm on Zoom

Zoom link on calendar and in the above linked invitation

A paper giving further details of the ideas will follow soon.

Quaker Wednesday

Quaker Wednesday takes place on the first Wednesday morning of every month at Wanstead  Meeting House.   Friends, visitors and enquirers gather for coffee and conversation from 10.30 onwards.   Meeting for Worship is from 12 to 12.45, followed by a shared lunch.   Everyone is welcome, and can attend for as much or as little time as they wish.   It usually finishes around 2.15.   Next dates:  June 4th and 2nd July.

The North East Thames area covers the following six meetings

Bethnal Green     Epping    Harlow    Romford    Walthamstow    Wanstead

You are most welcome at any of these Quaker Meetings. Find out more by clicking on the links above or following the Our Meetings link.

Dates of Meetings for Worship at Epping

Documents that help run our area meeting are under Area Meeting Information in Document Library.  Documents for the next area meeting for business are in Documents in Advance.

For details of how to register for the NET intranet, please ask your Local Meeting or email website@netaqm.org.uk

London Young Adult Quaker Meeting

meets regularly in central London

PAN LONDON PROCESS

From the Arrangements Group 

As we continue our discernment, London Quakers have agreed to collect questions through the contact form on their website.

Dates for future London-wide meetings in 2025 are 7th June and 4th October.

Links to Minutes and Papers, Frequently Asked Questions and the Story so Far are on the London Quakers Website:

Link to London Quakers website page 

Our next Area Meeting for Business is on Sunday 20th July at Wanstead Meeting House at 1.30 pm (instead of at Romford Meeting House).  

Documents in Advance will be posted in that section under Area Meeting Information.

Upcoming Events

Mon 2 June

Managing the money in a London Area Meeting

19:00

Venue: Zoom event

Zoom event organised by Keith Walton on behalf of the Development Group.  Open to everyone interested in this topic.  Invitation on the Home page and in Documents in Advance.  Paper with more details of the proposals to follow.

Mon 14 July

AM Treasurers Committee

19:00

Venue: Online

Committee meeting

Thu 17 July

AM Trustees

19:00

Venue: Wanstead Meeting House

Committee Meeting