Leicester Area Quaker News ... recent and future events
Sixty years for Oscar and Annette
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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 
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
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!
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).
Silver medal for 'Quaker Meeting Place Garden'
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On the day of the election results (May 7th 2010), Leicester Quakers visited the Malvern flower show and were delighted to experience the 'Quaker Meeting Place garden' which has been awarded a silver medal. Rachel Carmichael wondered whether this garden might find a home at Friends' House, but we have since learned that Malvern Quakers have bought it and will site it outside the Malvern Youth Centre. Rachel wrote : ...It is a peaceful space ... circular, with four paths leading to a seating area where benches face each other. ... Set within two of the paths are rills along which water flows to a central water feature. ... Planting is dominated by the calming influence of green in its many hues ...
Ninety not out!
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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).
