Colchester Quaker Meeting House
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News of forthcoming events which might be of interest to Friends
Area Meeting Calendar, 2009
  • Sunday January 11th, Colchester
  • Saturday February 7th, Colchester
  • Sunday March 8th, Earls Colne
  • Saturday April 18th, Clacton
  • Saturday May 9th, Sudbury
  • Sunday June 14th, Colchester
  
  • Sunday July 12th, Clacton
  • August: No meeting
  • Sunday September 13th, Colchester
  • Saturday October 10th, Sudbury
  • Sunday November 15th, Colchester
  • December: No meeting
Area Meeting Calendar, 2010
  • Sunday January 10th, Colchester
  • Saturday February 13th, Colchester
  • Sunday March 14th, Earls Colne
  • Sunday April 18th, Clacton
  • Saturday May 8th, Sudbury
  • Sunday June 13th, Colchester
  
  • Sunday July 11th, Clacton
  • August: No meeting
  • Sunday September 12th, Colchester
  • Saturday October 9th, Sudbury
  • Sunday November 21st, Colchester
  • December: No meeting
Further dates for your diary

Third Sundays of each month

Quaker Social Sunday

Details of each event are posted on the Meeting House notice boards and published in the Area Meeting Newsletter

All of November

World Vegan Month

“While there are abattoirs, there will always be battlefields, for they spring from the same attitude of mind”

Tolstoy

Details from the Vegan Month website

Saturday 5th December

National/London March Against Climate Chaos

To press for effective action at the Copenhagen Conference
Details from the Stop Climate Chaos website

Monday 7th December to
Friday 18th December

Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change

“Failure in Copenhagen is not an option”.  Let's hope they're right

If the world fails to deliver a political agreement at the UN climate conference in December, it will be “the whole global democratic system not being able to deliver results in one of the defining challenges of our century”, says incoming COP15 president, Connie Hedegaard

Details from the COP15 conference website

Thursday 10th December
19.00 to 21.00

Quaker Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution talks series

Venue:  Colchester Friends Meeting House
Topic:  Resettling refugees after displacement by civil war and serious tribal disputes
with Andrew Rendle.
Details from our promotional leaflet (~230Kb PDF file)

Thursday 10th December

International Animal Rights Day

Details of campaigns and events from the Uncaged campaign website

Thursday 28th January
19.00 to 21.00

Quaker Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution talks series

Venue:  Colchester Friends Meeting House
Topic:  Peace Direct: a presentation by young Truce 20/20 graduates working to defuse ethnic tensions in East London communities
Details from our promotional leaflet (~230Kb PDF file)

Saturday 27th February

Quaker Regional Gathering

Venue:  Clacton Friends Meeting House

Thursday 11th March
19.00 to 21.00

Quaker Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution talks series

Venue:  Colchester Friends Meeting House
Topic:  Women Working for Peace
Details from our promotional leaflet (~230Kb PDF file)

Thursday 8th April
19.00 to 21.00

Quaker Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution talks series

Venue:  Colchester Friends Meeting House
Topic:  Building a Culture of Peace
Speaker:  Bruce Kent,  vice president of the Movement to Abolition War
Details from our promotional leaflet (~230Kb PDF file)

Wednesday 12th May
evening

Quaker Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution talks series

Venue:  Colchester Moot Hall (within the Town Hall in Colchester High Street)
Public meeting - details and list of speakers to be advised
Watch this space !
Last updated:  Sunday, 22 November, 2009

If you have any events that you would like added, please send details to the email address above.

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