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  • Update on Soul Work group
    1 Sep 2010
    This group, formerly known as 'Beneath the Gospels', meets every two months, to work with Scripture, Myths, Poetry and Movement.
  • Next Book Group on Sept 4th
    23 Jun 2010
    The book group has now been meeting for around a year. We've developed sort of a radical concept: you don't have to read the books to come along and this is not a group about "rating" how good books are. Instead, please listen to what people say, get to know us in different ways and consider book themes more deeply.
  • Wild swimming! Sheffield Quakers really do like to live adventurously...
    22 Apr 2010
    A series of 'wild swimming' trips - ie out of doors - is being organised for this summer.
  • Extra Meetings for Worship
    11 Apr 2010
    We have decided that for a trial period of 6 months, we will have some extra meetings. Every week there will be the option of the main meeting or an alternative meeting, which will inevitably be a smaller group.
  • Dates for Area Meetings 2010
    26 Feb 2010
    Quakers from Sheffield, Doncaster and Hope Valley get together once a month. These meetings were, until quite recently, known as Monthly Meetings.
  • Meeting for Eating
    6 Feb 2010
    Sharing a meal together is good way of getting to know each other.
  • Change of schedule of Meeting for Mutual Support
    23 Jan 2010
    Now switching to the second and fourth Sunday every month.
  • Children's Business Meeting
    17 Jan 2010
    Our 5 - 8 year olds group also had a business meeting on 10th January. Read their minute here.
  • 'Threshing' Meeting
    10 Jan 2010
    Nearly 90 of us met together to share our ideas about our meeting - should we make some changes, such as introduce more small meetings, so that there are more different opportunities for worship, to meet all needs.
  • Statement from Northern Friends Peace Board
    24 Nov 2009
    The Northern Friends Peace Board Executive committee recently agreed the following statement about the UK’s continuing military involvement in Afghanistan. We also heard a suggestion that people should light a candle and display it in their front window each evening between 8 and 9 pm, as a symbol of our wish for peacebuilding rather than further violence. Friends may wish to take this up.