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Welcome to the Quakers in Yorkshire website. We hope it directs you to the information you would like about our activities. Most Quaker meetings have their own contact details, which will give you additional help.
This page will point you to: our recent news; items about quarterly meetings; future events
April 2025 Newsletter
April 2025 Quarterly Meeting
The Spring Quarterly Meeting will be held on Saturday 26 April at Doncaster Meeting House, 10.30am to 4.00pm.
- Morning: Paul Parker on the experience of simplification and its possible spiritual benefits: how ‘simplification might help to ‘rejuvenate’. Followed by Breakout groups to discuss the possible spiritual benefits of simplification and what might be taken back to our meetings.
- Afternoon: Bridget Holtom on peace in a central Quaker context, a reflection on emerging relationships and a lead-in to the theme of Yearly Meeting.
Youth and all-age events planned for 2025
Click on links for further details
- Yorkshire Friends Holiday School Reunion, Huddersfield, 14-16 February. School years 9-13
- Link Group: Seniors, Airton Meeting House. 21-23 March. School years 9-13.
- Junior Holidays: Inters, Barmoor, 28-30 March. School years 6-8.
- Junior Holidays. Raywell Park, Hull. 16-18 May. School years 3-7.
- Link Group: Barnsley Meeting House. 27-29 June. School years 7-13.
- Yorkshire Quaker Camp, Fell Edge, Ilkley. 8-11 August. Any age. Families subsidised.
- Yorkshire Friends Holiday School. 17-24 August. 13-21 year olds.
- Junior Holidays: Juniors. 26-28 September. School years 3-5.
- Link Group: Barmoor. 5-7 December. School years 7-13.
Simplifying governance
The Yorkshire Quaker Governance Group has published proposals for a single Yorkshire charity as the merger of the existing area meeting charities. See here for full details
Yorkshire families outreach project
Jo and Craig explain their new outreach project to families, funded by Quakers in Yorkshire.
Fox 400 Audio Project – What canst thou say?
This audio project captures the voices of Yorkshire Quakers answering the following two questions:
- What do you do in Meeting for Worship?
- What do you experience in Meeting for Worship?
Listen to the Fox Audio Project
Yorkshire Quaker Camp
Friday 8th – Monday 11th August 2025
Due to very high demand, this camp is currently fully booked. We expect some cancellations, and you can sign up for the waiting list here: Yorkshire Quaker Camp – Quakers in Yorkshire
January 2025 Newsletter and Quarterly Meeting
Download a pdf of the Newsletter
The first Quarterly Meeting in 2025 was held at Carlton Hill Meeting House, Leeds on Saturday 18 January.
Minutes and presentations can be found here
Activities for young people
Jo Baynham (Yorkshire Youth Development Worker) arranges many activities for young people.
Go to the Youth Activity page for more information
Quaker Renewal in Yorkshire
Craig Barnett (Yorkshire Local Development Worker) helps meetings with activities aimed to grow Quakerism in Yorkshire.
Go to Local Development Worker page
Newsletter
Quakers in Yorkshire publishes a quarterly newsletter to coincide with quarterly meetings. The newsletters are on the Quarterly Meeting page and sent by email to those who request a copy.
Farfield Meeting House
The historic Farfield Meeting House, near Ilkley is always open to visitors. From April to October, there is a simple meeting for worship on the third Thursday of each month at 2.30pm. The first date is Thursday 17 April. Further information on Farfield Meeting House here.
Quarterly Meetings
Quakers in Yorkshire holds quarterly meetings which are open to all Friends to attend, in January, April, July and October.
The newsletters, programmes, reports and minutes are stored here on this website by year:
2024, 2023, 2022, earlier years