Final Meeting for Worship in Romford Meeting House
Sunday 22nd June 2025
Meeting for Worship 10.30 - 11.30
Tea, coffee and conversation
Memories, old photo albums, browse the grounds
Shared lunch - please bring contributions
The Balgores band will be playing and will be selling copies of their album
with proceeds to go towards Nora's chosen charity, Médicins Sans Frontières
Quakers in Havering by Ian Hutchings
Although Quakers in Romford have only been in the current Meeting House for six decades, member Ian Hutchings researched and wrote this 13 page article of their history from 1684.
Link to details of a new meeting starting on Sunday June 8th
The next Area Meeting Newsletter is being edited by Romford Meeting. It will be published during June.
Link to Swarthmore Lecture 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
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: 2nd July and 6th August
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.
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
From the Arrangements Group
As we continue our discernment, London Quakers have agreed to collect questions through the Contact Form on their website. Links to Minutes and Papers, Frequently Asked Questions and the Story so Far are on the London Quakers Website.
Link to London Quakers Website
JLAM 2025/16 Date of next meeting
We next meet, should nothing occur to prevent, at 10.00 for 10.30 am on Saturday 4
October at Westminster Meeting House, with a parallel young person’s meeting. The
meeting will be followed by a “soup and cake” lunch, and then an opportunity to take
part in joint outreach.
JLAM 2025/15 Joint Area Meeting dates 2026
Sunday 11 January The Light, Friends House
Saturday 7 March Wandsworth MH
Saturday 13 June Westminster MH
Saturday 12 September Wanstead MH
Sunday 11 October Friends House
Sunday 13 December The Light, Friends House
NB. These are all-day meetings, with mornings spent either in learning or worship,
with business taking place in the afternoon.
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.
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
Sun 20 July
Area Meeting
13:30-17:00
Venue: Wanstead Meeting House,
We gather on Sunday July 20th 2025 at 1.30 pm at Wanstead Meeting House and blended online, for an area meeting for business (venue changed from Romford MH). A proposed agenda and zoom link will be sent a week before. Some Documents in Advance are already in that Section under Area Meeting Information.