Archive of news items
Quakers commit to becoming a low carbon sustainable community
In early August, the corporate gathering of Quakers (Friends) in Britain made a commitment to become a low carbon sustainable community. For more information and links on what that might mean for individual Friends and meetings.......(opens in Adobe Acrobat (pdf) window)Memorial Meetings, July 2011
For Cara Rablen - Saturday 23 July at 3.30 p.m.
For Rachel Carmichael - Thursday 28 July at 2.30 p.m.
For Barbara Clark - Saturday 30 July at 12.30 p.m.
Summer events 2011, in which Leicester Friends were involved:
Sunday 5th June: 'Sing for Water' at the Riverside Festival. Annette Wallis and several other Friends took part.
11th and 12th June: Art House 2011. Several artists around Stoneygate and Clarendon Park, including our own Beate Dehnan, opened their houses to exhibit their work.
SATURDAY 18th JUNE: The City of Sanctuary SUMMER FAIR took place at the Meeting House.
Sunday 10th July: The Heart of England Recorder Orchestra played at the Richard Attenborough Centre, Lancaster Road at 4p.m. Keith Martin was one of the players.
AND Saturday 17 September: Leicester Area Meeting's ‘Jamboree’ took place all day at the Meeting House in Queens Road.
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Book launch (29 May 2011)
Leicester Quaker Press has released a second volume in the series "My Life, My Faith". (ISBN 978-0-9567091-1-0). This one features interviews with five more Leicester Friends about their personal journeys in life and faith. They are: Judith Sullivan, Alastair Jackson, Alice Beer, James Harbour and Janet Perry. This new volume includes photographs, and special cover designed by Beate Dehnen. Copies are available from LQP, c/o Leicester Quaker Meeting House, 16 Queens Road Leicester, LE2 1WP. Cheques (£4.00 incl p and p) should be made out to M.Ricci.A Willow Cabin ....
Children at Queens Road recently planted a willow cabin on the far side of the garden, beyond and amongst the trees. Now it is coming into full leaf, and we look forward to some happy hours inside it later this year. -->
We also have a new publicity board ...
Our previous 'wayside pulpit' lasted nearly 60 years, and now we have 
a new one for passers-by in Queens Road. Note the container for leaflets telling more about us. If you have ideas for posters to go on this board, please talk to Malcolm Elliott
"Images of Oscar on our minds" (27 February 2011)
Leicester Quakers are not short of hale and hearty nonagenarians, and now we have another one! Oscar Wallis attained this age in February, and on Sunday 27 February we were able to join the family in celebration. Son Peter had composed a tribute in song, with verses about some stages of Oscar's life from childhood in Scarborough to life in the merchant navy as 'officer philosopher', and then on and on to life as a pacifist, father, husband, teacher and New Testament scholar. Here is the last chorus, summing up the many 'images of Oscar':
Thank you Mr Wallis sir ...
All those years they've got behind ...
There'll be plenty more you'll find ...
And I've got images of Oscar on my mind.
Interfaith week (21-27 November 2010)
Quakers took part in several events designed to improve knowledge of other faith communities - for example at the Leicester Council of Faiths stand (shown here) which remained all week in the High Cross shopping centre, and by taking part in visits to other faith centres. Also a presentation about Quakers for such occasions was prepared by Alan Willey and shown to professional colleagues. It will be available for others to modify for their particular context, and for the moment you can see it in its current form by clicking here. If you would like to adapt it for related circumstances, please get in touch by sending a message for Alan using our Contact Us page.
The 125 Fund - a better way to warm the winter? (November 2010)
Some over-sixties who will this year receive a winter fuel allowance of £125 may feel that the needs of others are greater than their own - including those of many people in the Leicestershire area. With this in mind, Paul Newman of this meeting, together with his wife Sue, and the Leicestershire and Rutland Community Foundation, have set up a 125 Fund through which you can pass on the £125 to those in greater need as soon you receive it (and have it enhanced by the Gift Aid system). To learn how the funds will be used locally, click here. The 'latest news' tab at the top of that page will lead you to a 4 minute video about recent local projects which the Foundation has aided.
Quaker week (3rd -10th October 2010) - Putting belief into action
Click here to read how several Leicester Quakers explain what faith in action means for them as individuals, why it matters to them and what they do to 'make their lives speak'.Something Understood on Radio 4 (31 October 2010)
In a thoughtful radio presentation about conscientious objection, Mike Wooldridge interviewed several people including Leicester Quaker Oscar Wallis. Oscar spoke about the Quaker witness, about what he himself had done during the second world war, and how he still feels this today.
Sixty years for Oscar and Annette (July 2010)
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On 3 July 2010 there was a joyous gathering at the Queens Road Meeting House to celebrate the diamond wedding anniversary of Oscar Wallis and Annette Wallis (nee Catchpool). They welcomed and were welcomed by their huge 'family' in the widest sense of that word. There were many items of musical inspiration including a family anthem composed by Jill Wallis using the words of Isaac Pennington (Our life is love and peace and tenderness ... bearing one with another ... and helping one another up with a tender hand). In lighter vein, we also heard a 60-year quality control audit of progress in the married state (click for the words).
Quakers at Riverside Festival (June 2010) 
Leicester Quakers ran a busy stall at the Leicester Riverside Festival on 5 June. One feature was a way of helping children to think about the dangers which families face when forced to leave their homes suddenly for fear of being killed. We helped visiting children to select what they would need to pack, in a small suitcase.
Leicester Tapestry featured at Kendal (Summer 2010)
There is a special exhibition In Kendal this summer -about the Quaker contribution to the development of railways. It features the original panel which was embroidered by Leicester Quakers. Read more ...
New welcome leaflet hot off the press! (Summer 2010)
Our new leaflet 'Welcome to Leicester Quaker Meeting' tells you something about our beliefs and values. You can pick up a copy in the foyer of our meeting house in Queens Road, Leicester or open a lower quality version in a new window or tab, by clicking the picture on the left (1 MB file size).
Ninety not out! (May 2010)
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Saturday May 1st 2010 was the occasion of a tea party at the Queens Road Meeting House to mark the ninetieth birthday of Catherine Hickinbotham (nee Cadbury). Younger guests could not claim to remember all the ways in which she has engaged with life, or all the ways in which she has supported and animated the life of Leicester Meeting, but son Roger spoke to help them understand their own memories in the context of a much longer story. What he said was also illustrated by a display of amazing photographs from earlier years, of horse riding and ski-ing and so many more activities in a very full life which expresses Quaker values. The photograph here shows Catherine with sister Philippa in our Large Meeting Room, with flowers in the foreground. (The flowers were surrounded by what are not shown here: innumerable cards of greeting and congratulation).
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Action in Palestine: On 8 November 2009 members of the Peace Group were privileged to hear a talk by HILARY BROWNE who has recently returned from the West Bank. She had many photographs to illustrate the tribulations of daily life there, but also to show the humanity that she found amongst local peace activists, and she left us with many ideas of what we can do to help promote a just peace. |