Welcome to East Cheshire Area Meeting!
East Cheshire Area Meeting is home to eight Local Meetings. Please click on one of the links below in order to find out more about a Meeting near you.
Cheadle Hulme, Crewe and Nantwich, Disley, Frandley (Northwich), Macclesfield, Marple, Stockport, Wilmslow
East Cheshire Area Meeting is home to eight Local Meetings. Please click on one of the links below in order to find out more about a Meeting near you.
Disley Meeting are planning to read Helen Minnis’s Swarthmore lecture 2022 called ‘Perceiving the Temperature of the Water’ (cost £10). The idea is to host 4/6 sessions on a weeknight at the end of January through February 2024 on Zoom. Disley hope it will be open to all Friends in ECAM. Details to be sent to all clerks as soon as dates have been confirmed.
Friends can purchase the Swarthmore lecture from the Quaker bookshop here: https://bookshop.quaker.org.uk/Perceiving-the-temperature-of-the-water_9781739226008
Helen Minnis' Swarthmore lecture is also available to watch on YouTube.
‘He never hid himself’: the incredible life of gay civil rights leader Bayard Rustin
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/nov/21/bayard-rustin-movie-lgbt-civil-rights-netflix
Quakers in Buxton meet at ‘The Green Man gallery’ on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of the month at 7.15pm. All welcome.
Disley Meeting continue with a fascinating programme of Meetings for Learning. They begin at approx 12pm (after coffee and Meeting for Worship) and finish at 1pm.
ECAM's Racial Justice Group have developed a number of sessions that Local Meetings might wish us to come to deliver for them. Please see the attached document for full details. Please feel free to mail vpinfat@gmail.com if you have any queries about the sessions or wish to book us for a visit to your local meeting.
This is an opportunity to find out more about Quakers. Everyone is very welcome.
30th Sept - 1st October
One night stay at Disley for 10-16 year olds linked to Quakers in East Cheshire. Book via Andrew Backhouse or Emma Killick - andrew.backhouse@phonecoop.coop
Here is an article explaining why Quakers should protest against the Defence and Security Equipment Arms Fair taking place in September.
https://www.quaker.org.uk/blog/why-should-we-protest-against-dsei-in-2023