All events take place at Quaker Meeting House, 188 Woodhouse Lane, Leeds unless otherwise stated

Every Sunday 10.45am Meeting for Worship

Every Thursday 6pm to 7pm Meting for Worship followed by refreshments

 

July


Thursday 19th 2.30pm Meeting for Worship will be held at Farfield Meeting House near Addingham in Wharfedale this year on third Thursdays

 

Thursday 19th   at 7.45pm, a Quaker Sustainability Group Meeting.   All welcome

 

Saturday 21 July it will be the Quakers in Yorkshire gathering from 10am to 4pm at Ackworth School, the main topic in the morning is Israel and Palestine and there is a programme of social activities in the afternoon.   See the programme and newsletter at http://quakersinyorkshire.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/QiY-newsletter-July-2018.pdf

 

 

Sunday 22nd Extended Meeting for Worship starting with a shared breakfast at 9am, then worship from 9.30 to 11.45 with friends welcome to arrive or leave at 10am or 10.45am.  We also support Gildersome Meeting on the 4th Sunday of the month - a lift will be provided at 10.15am – if you can offer a lift or would like a lift, please contact Robert Keeble.

Sunday 22nd  Leeds Area Quaker Meeting (a meeting restricted to those who attend Quaker Meetings in Leeds).  To be held from 1pm to 4.15pmat Rawdon Quaker Meeting House.  Topic: The work of BYM Trustees.

Sunday 22nd Quaker Cycle Ride in support of the Welfare State starts. Starting at Swarthmore Hall, the route wends through the Lake District and will pass through Yorkshire from 23rd to 26th before ending at ending at Friends House on 3rd August  – riders will be staying at Meeting Houses on route. There are many ways to support this event – see full details at   https://mailchi.mp/4f8ae408c8bc/quaker-faith-in-action-1492813?e=bed917a692

Sunday 29th July – Garden Work party from 12.15 to 13.15 followed by refreshments

Sunday 29th  at 7.30pm Rawdon QMH Amnesty Concert    Love-song Waltzes

Chris Pelly and friends from Leeds University perform the delightful and seldom-heard Liebeslieder Walzer by Brahms, for vocal quartet and piano duet.  Full series is at http://www.leedsquakers.org.uk/activities/_amnesty-concerts

 

 

August

Saturday 4th August – Leeds Quaker annual outing will be to Richmond – departing Carlton Hill 9.30am. Cost £14 = children are free.

 

Sunday 5th August, Post-Truth World: Quakers’ Response  Following a concern received by Meeting for Sufferings, Friends have been asked to consider how we should respond in a post-truth world

 

Sunday 5   August    Faiths at Pride       1.45pm

LGBT+ people of faith will be part of the Gay Pride Parade starting from Millennium Square.

Lots of entertainment.  See www.leedspride.com

 

Thursday 9     Hiroshima - Nagasaki Commemoration    10.30am - 11.30am

Join with Leeds City Peacelink Group for the reading of the Nagasaki Peace Declaration and laying of memorial wreath in Park Square South LS1 2QG

11.02 Two minutes silence to remember all those affected in the atomic bombings and all innocent civilian victims of warfare.  

 

Sunday 12 August at 7.30pm Rawdon QMH Amnesty Concert: The Little Suitcase Judith Rhodes presents a short film telling the true story of her mother, Ursula Michel, a Kindertransport refugee from Nazi Germany, with music by Jewish exiles, and time for questions.  http://www.leedsquakers.org.uk/activities/_amnesty-concerts

 

Thursday 16th 2.30pm Meeting for Worship will be held at Farfield Meeting House near Addingham in Wharfedale this year on third Thursdays

 

September

 

Sunday 9th Rawdon meeting is planning a special Sunday meeting for worship on to which all children in LAQM would be invited followed by a shared lunch and activities in the afternoon. 

 

Sunday  9th 7.30pm Rawdon Amnesty Concert  see http://www.leedsquakers.org.uk/activities/_amnesty-concerts

 

Saturday 15th  7.30pm Rawdon Amnesty Concert  see http://www.leedsquakers.org.uk/activities/_amnesty-concerts

 

Thursday 20th 2.30pm Meeting for Worship will be held at Farfield Meeting House near Addingham in Wharfedale this year on third Thursdays

 

Saturday 22nd Sept. Fairtrade conferences in the autumn! Put your name down now to get inspired and discuss the latest Fairtrade developments with expert speakers and other like-minded Fairtrade campaigners. There's no national conference this year so come along to Leeds: Saturday 22 September (10:30am-3:30pm) Click here to register your place. 

 

 

Saturday 22 September 2018 • 12 noon - 5pm Nae Nukes Anywhere: demo at Faslane nuclear base.  Scottish CND is inviting campaigners from across the globe to protest at Faslane in Scotland - site of the Trident nuclear weapons system - to challenge the UK Government to sign the Ban Treaty and scrap its nuclear policies

 

Monday 24 September    Attitudes to Violence    7.30pm

Baha’i and Christian attitudes towards violence, its causes and its cure.

Speakers: Mehran Nassiri and Revd Sam Corley.  Organised by Leeds Concord  at the Quaker Meeting House, 188 Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9DX   Refreshments provided. Everyone welcome.

 

Saturday 29th  7.30pm Rawdon Amnesty Concert  see http://www.leedsquakers.org.uk/activities/_amnesty-concerts

 

 

 

October

 

Sunday  14th 7.30pm Rawdon Amnesty Concert  see http://www.leedsquakers.org.uk/activities/_amnesty-concerts

 

Thursday 18th 2.30pm Meeting for Worship will be held at Farfield Meeting House near Addingham in Wharfedale - this will be the last meeting for 2018.

 

 

Sunday  28th 7.30pm Rawdon Amnesty Concert  see http://www.leedsquakers.org.uk/activities/_amnesty-concerts

 

 

November

 

Sunday  11th 7.30pm Rawdon Amnesty Concert  see http://www.leedsquakers.org.uk/activities/_amnesty-concerts

 

 

Saturday 24th 7.30pm Rawdon Amnesty Concert  see http://www.leedsquakers.org.uk/activities/_amnesty-concerts

 

December

 

Sunday  2nd  7.30pm Rawdon Amnesty Concert  see http://www.leedsquakers.org.uk/activities/_amnesty-concerts

 

Sunday  16th 7.30pm Rawdon Amnesty Concert  see http://www.leedsquakers.org.uk/activities/_amnesty-concerts

 


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