April 2024 – Earth Day
April 2024 – Earth Day World Earth Day is on April 22, providing a special day to focus on caring for our planet.
Resource Topic: Environment
Tending the Flames: resilience in activism
How do we keep going when we feel like all is lost? How do we keep talking when we feel no one is listening? We might find the answers in metaphors of fire – in what it takes to keep a fire burning and what it means to tend the flames. In this poetic presentation, … Read more
Where the Wild Things Are: gardening for nature in Quaker spaces
The UK is one of the most nature-depleted places on Earth, in the face of this our gardens provide a vital sanctuary. This presentation by Caroline Chandler considers how we can use our gardens to support nature and provide a refuge for different members of our community. Drawing on the experiences of three Quaker meeting … Read more
From Small Acorns Come Wide Branches: building community in an uncertain world
From humble beginnings come gardens for minds to rest in, one thousand trees and places to call home. Find out more about how communities are coming together to protect nature and each other’s wellbeing. When Jo Cremins heard how the residents in her town raised enough money in five weeks to buy a local wood, … Read more
March 2024 – Spring
March 2024 – Spring The daffodils are out! There’s more than a whiff of Spring in the air and with it, new life.
January 2024 – Caring for our world. Caring for ourselves. Caring for others
January 2024 – Caring for our world. Caring for ourselves. Caring for others “I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not … Read more
July 2023 – Outdoors
July 2023 – Outdoors All species and the Earth itself have interdependent roles within Creation. Humankind is not the species, to whom all others are subservien to, but one among many. All parts, all issues, are inextricably intertwined. Indeed the web of creation could be described as of three ply thread: wherever we touch it … Read more
March 2023 – Spring Forward
March 2023 – Spring Forward Spring is a season of new life. The Earth wakes up from its rest, temperatures rise, and daylight increases. Signs of life are everywhere you look. Our Earth is a wonderful place and it’s exciting to see it spring back into life.
Our Friends and Other Animals and Lessons from Friends against Nuclear Weapons
Jasmine Piercy shares her work on the theme, ‘Our Friends and Other Animals’: how we might extend our Quaker testimony to all species. Adopting a fresh, hopeful and non-judgemental approach, she has been engaging with Friends creatively through her online ‘Museum of Animal Stuff’, artefacts derived from animals, collected and curated into an interactive exhibition: … Read more
March 2020 – Climate Activism
March 2020 – Climate Activism The issue of climate change is important and urgent for all of us but young people have taken up this concern as something they feel passionate about and maybe very worried about.
