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Combating loneliness

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Reading Quaker Andrew Kingston, a mental health professional at Camden and Islington’s NHS Community Recovery Service, talks to Gardeners World about…

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The spiritual heart of our shared humanity?

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In a new eBooklet, ‘Our shared Humanity. Some inclusive spiritual perspectives’, Newbury Friend Howard Grace explores whether, in engaging together…

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Quakers under the swastika

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Our Quaker History Group heard a moving and informative talk about ‘Quakers under the swastika’ given by Leslie Wilson. We…

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‘Beyond Forgiving’ at Leighton Park School

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Photo l to r: Howard, Stephen Taynton, (teacher), Julia.   The liberation struggle against apartheid in South Africa could not…

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Safeguarding our heritage

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Chris Skidmore, formerly of Reading Quaker Meeting, maps how changing beliefs and practices over the past 350 years of Quakerism…

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“Oh yes we can…!”

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Quakers in Reading raised the roof with a wonderful pantomime, written during a gathering at Charney Mannor, and directed by…

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Nurturing young Friends

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Quakers from Reading and Wallingford were introduced to our new Youth, Children and Families Development Worker, Julia Dover, at a…

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Meeting by candlelight

Christmas Eve 2022

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On Christmas Eve we at Henley  held a candlelit meeting for worship, followed by the kind of soup which 1st…

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O tidings of comfort and joy!

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A warm and joyful celebration of Christmas was had by all at the Quaker Meeting House in Reading, which was…

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‘Bienvenue les amis’

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We welcomed Sylvette and Richard Thompson to our Meeting for Worship in Reading, after not having seen them for five years. They…

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