Cheadle Hulme, Crewe and Nantwich, Disley, Frandley (Northwich), Macclesfield, Marple, Stockport, Wilmslow
East Cheshire Area Meeting is home to eight Local Meetings and one Worshipping Group. Please click on one of the links below in order to find out more about a Meeting near you.
Frandley (Near Northwich)
*Worshipping group
Thank you all very much for your help with the Pride stall and the parade (plus transporting chairs etc)
It was a busy day, especially when it rained, so it got a bit crowded round the stall. But some good conversations and interest. Our opportunity for outreach, and to hear what people think of Quakers
Sorry not to video Bou twirling around in her beautiful dress with the Quakers for Equality banner. I'm sure she was "captured" by the onlookers
Attaching some photos, I'll put some on Stockport for Peace Facebook page.
Thanks again everyone
Phoebe
Elaine Fisher came along later.
We have a stall in the Stockport market (shared with Stockport for Peace). Some Friends will join in the parade before hand, others will be on the stall after meeting for worship. All welcome
A meeting for worship for business preceeded by lunch provided by Frandley Friends.
Download ECAM agenda 250511.pdf (130.83 KB) Download 250401 cyp worker ideas.pdf (313.61 KB) Download Trustees Meeting 03 04 25.pdf (79.29 KB)Area Meeting at Frandley at 1.45pm. They will offer lunch before the meeting.
Area Meeting at Wilmslow 10.30. Wilmslow will provided lunch followed at 1.30 by Report on the Quaker Prison Chaplains Conference.
The ECAM Racial Justice Group are happy to announce a new workshop. This will be facilitated by Till Geiger. If you are interested, please contact either Véronique Pin-Fat or Ann Lewis. Also attached is the complete programme of workshops for 2024, including 'Unlearning racism' and 'White allyship'. We are supported by ECAM and can attend your Local Meeting at no cost to you. Please feel free to get in touch if you have any queries.
Quakers, Britain’s imperial past and reparations session
This workshop explores why Quakers are currently exploring our involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and its legacy. This exploration aims to provide the basis for an informed discussion of the issue of reparations before Britain Yearly Meeting.
I.Openings
II.Commitment to become an anti-racist church and a sustainable church.
III.Reflection Prompt
IV.Historical exploration
V.Implications for Quakers today
VI.Worship sharing: How might we think about reparation now?
An article by Heike Huschauer with poster by Ben Evens.
Every Saturday
from 11 am to 12 noon at the
Turner Memorial below the Slopes in Buxton
Stand in a circle of stillness with others who long for peace
‘Quakers in Buxton’ are a worship group of F/friends coming from Bakewell, Disley, and Macclesfield Meetings.
During the last months we have felt increasingly distressed, hopeless, and helpless in the light of wars, terror, and famine in so many countries around the globe.
What can we do; here, where we live our daily lives?
How can we “…undo some of the hurt in this world and take positive action for a better future” as written in one of the oldest leaflets of the Northern Friends Peace Board?
As we all experienced in the 1980s, holding a Vigil for Peace with like-minded F/friends can be empowering and hope-giving.
Buxton F/friends discussed thoroughly how a vigil could be held in these times and how others or passers-by might be invited to join. Should we use posters, leaflets, press releases – where, when, how?
Our decisions:
Ø A vigil open for everyone. Therefore no Quaker or other banners, only one big neutral placard (see above).
Ø Aim is to create a space for reflection, showing solidarity, finding a moment of hope, giving witness, sharing the sorrows of the world.
Ø A circle looking inwards leaving gaps for easy joining. Some chairs.
Ø Beforehand invitations (A5 poster – same as the big placard) for faith and environmental groups, in cafés, in the library and some public spaces.
Ø Press release afterwards.
Ø Doing it every Saturday, same place, same time until it becomes a tradition in Buxton. Saturdays 11am-12pm, the Turner Memorial (bottom of The Slopes), Buxton.
The first peace circle was held on Saturday 30th March 2024. Twenty six people of all walks of life joined and stood for 5 minutes or more, many for up to an hour. There were people from churches, a festival volunteer, a couple of tourists, some Saturday morning shoppers, someone from a Tai Chi-course – some known to us and some we had never seen before. And, one dog. Many pledged to come again.
Many experienced this first Saturday morning vigil as something precious and powerful. It had the spirituality of a Quaker Meeting.
We will be there again and again – every Saturday – bearing witness that peace is a real alternative.
Please, come and join us.
Saturdays 11am-12pm, the Turner Memorial (bottom of The Slopes), Buxton.
Buxton Peace Circle, 30th March, 2024.
Photograph by Véronique Pin-Fat.
