Gloucester Friends Meeting House. Photo: John Hall.

Gloucester Quakers active in the heart of their city

Gloucester Quakers win award Quakers in Gloucester have been given a double boost recently as they have celebrated the reopening of their meeting house and the city’s Gay and Lesbian Community has named them as their “person of the year”. Gloucester Quakers’ 19th century meeting house was gutted by fire in 09/2012 after an arson…

A sea tide in Cornwall at sunset

Swimming against the tide

Swimming against the tide A review of the Quakers in Criminal Justice (QICJ) conference – Woodbrooke 25-27/02/2011 by Ronan Falsey As someone who had only relatively recently started attending Quaker Meetings nine months ago, and as it was my first visit to Woodbrooke, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect! (Although, I had heard the…