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.
Teenage Yorkshire Friends Network
Aged 11-18? From Yorkshire? Interested in, or connected to Quakers? Your invited to join the activities of the Teenage Yorkshire Friends Network. Information on events in September and October 2021 here
October 2021 Quarterly Meeting
The October 2021 Quarterly Meeting is planned to be held at Friargate Meeting House, York. It is hoped to have a blended meeting using Zoom for those not able to attend. In the morning there will be reports from Bootham School and The Mount School. In the afternoon there will be a session with the Book of Discipline Revision Committee and plans for action to coincide with COP-26.
July 2021 Quarterly Meeting
The July 2021 Quarterly Meeting was again held by Zoom. The programme included preparing to witness against the arms fair; Paul Parker on Local Development Workers and the Leeds Staff Hub as well as annual reports from QiY Trustees and Glenthorne.
Here is the Programme and July Newsletter
Youth Development Worker
Quakers in Yorkshire Trustees have given funds to Britain Yearly Meeting to enable the youth development work to continue for at least another year.
Local Development Worker
Bridget Holtom, the new Yorkshire Local Development Worker, is now working with Meeting and Friends to provide support to develop Yorkshire Quakerism. Find out more.
Leeds Hub
A new staff hub has opened at Carlton Hill Meeting House, Leeds. This is a new venture by Quakers in Britain to take the centrally managed work to Friends, rather than all be based at Friends House in London. Some staff who live in Yorkshire have moved permanently to Leeds; others will be part-time in Leeds.
An official opening is planned for Saturday 18 September 2021.
GRASP Report and Recommendations
The report and recommendations of GRASP with the title “Reinvigoration and Simplification” was published in February 2021.
Quarterly Meetings
Quakers in Yorkshire holds quarterly meetings which are open to all Friends to attend, in January, April, July and October.
The programmes, reports and minutes are stored here on this website by year:
Farfield Meeting House
Farfield Quaker Meeting House, (2 miles west of Addingham near Ilkley on the road to Bolton Abbey), was last year chosen as one of 10 faith and belief places in England by Historic England.
The small, simple Meeting House is one of the oldest Quaker Meeting Houses in the world. It was built in 1689, the year of the Act of Toleration which allowed Quakers and other non-conformist groups religious freedom and which meant that they could build their own places of worship. The Meeting House is owned by the Historic Chapels Trust which, along with a small local committee, undertakes the care and maintenance of the building. For more information visit this website:
Programmes, reports and minutes of previous quarterly meetings can be found here for 2020, 2019, 2018 , 2017