Newsletter

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Newsletter December 2022

Diary

Date	Time	Event details
Sat 3rd	10am–4pm	Abingdon Carbon Cutters: tree planting Rye Farm Meadow
Sun 4th	After MfW	Special Business Meeting
Sat 10th	1pm	Movement and Imaginative Play Oxford Meeting House
Thurs 15th	6pm	Enquirers’ meeting: Quaker history and myths Oxford Meeting House
Fri 16th	7:30pm	Friday with Friends: Oxford Community Land Trust Oxford Meeting House
Sun 18th	10:15am	Christmas Meeting Abingdon Community Support Centre

Photo by Liz Matthews of a seasonal arrangement brought to Meeting on 23rd October by Rosie Page.

Newsletter

For reasons of data privacy and/or copyright, certain information and/or images may have been removed from the online version of our newsletter. If you would like to receive the full newsletter each month, please send an email to newsletter@abingdonquakers.org.uk and we will add you to the circulation list.

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Newsletter November 2022

Diary

Date	Time	Event details
Thurs 3rd	6pm	Enquirers’ meeting Oxford Meeting House
Sun 6th	After MfW	Business Meeting
Fri 11th	6:30pm	Chichester Quakers Annual Peace Lecture Online
Sat 12th	10:30am	Area Meeting Swindon Meeting. House
	10:30am	Extended Meeting for Worship Oxford Meeting House
	2pm	Movement for the Abolition of War Remembrance Day Lecture London and online
Tues 15th	8pm	Abingdon Peace Group Online
Wed 16th	7:30pm	Abingdon Carbon Cutters Online
Thurs 24th	6pm	Enquirers’ meeting Oxford Meeting House
Sun 27th	After MfW	Learning Sunday and bring-&-share lunch

Photo by Liz Matthews.

Newsletter

For reasons of data privacy and/or copyright, certain information and/or images may have been removed from the online version of our newsletter. If you would like to receive the full newsletter each month, please send an email to newsletter@abingdonquakers.org.uk and we will add you to the circulation list.

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Newsletter October 2022

Diary

Date	Time	Event details
Sat 1st	11am	Meeting for Worship during Just Stop Oil protest Friends House, London.
Sat 1st	12noon	Peace Rally USAF Croughton
Sat 8th (TBC)	11am	Meeting for Worship during Just Stop Oil protest Friends House, London
Sat 8th	3pm	Abingdon Peace Group jumble sale Northcourt Centre
Sun 9th	After MfW	Learning Sunday
Thurs 13th–Sat 15th	All day	Exhibition: African History Season Christ Church, Northcourt Road
Sat 15th	10:30am	Regional Meeting Reading Meeting House
Fri 21st	7:30pm	Quaker and Bahá’í friendship evening Oxford Meeting House
Tues 18th (TBC)	8pm (TBC)	Abingdon Peace Group Northcourt Centre
Wed 19th (TBC)	7:30pm (TBC)	Abingdon Carbon Cutters (Venue TBC)
Tues 25th	7pm	Faith in Action Quarterly Gathering: Bayard Austin Zoom
Wed 26th	7:0pm	Tim Gee speaks about the visit to Ukraine by FWCC  Oxford Meeting House and Zoom

Photo by Liz Matthews.

Newsletter

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Newsletter September 2022

Diary

Date	Time	Event Details
Sun 4th	c11:45am	Meeting for Worship for Business Abbey Centre
Sat 10th	10:30am	Area Meeting and Spiritual Nurture session Marlborough Meeting House
Sun 18th	2pm	Annual outing Chris & Kate Sewell’s home
Tues 20th	8pm	Abingdon Peace Group Northcourt Centre
Wed 21st	TBC	Abingdon Carbon Cutters TBC

Photo by Liz Matthews.

Newsletter

We now publish our monthly newsletter online in PDF format. For reasons of data privacy and/or copyright, certain information and/or images may have been removed from the online version. If you would like to receive the full newsletter each month, please send an email to newsletter@abingdonquakers.org.uk and we will add you to the circulation list.

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Newsletter August 2022

Diary

Date	Time	Event Details
Sat 6th	7:45am	Hiroshima Day vigil War memorial
	10:30am	Repair café: sewing Climate Emergency Centre
Sun 7th	11am	Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bonn Square, Oxford
	3:30pm	Peace picnic Abbey Meadows
Sat 20th	10:30am	Repair café: electrical etc. items; bike checks Climate Emergency Centre
September
Sun 4th	c11:45am	Meeting for Worship for Business Abbey Centre
Sat 10th	10:30am	Area Meeting and Spiritual Nurture session Marlborough Meeting House
Sun 18th	TBA	TBA Annual outing Chris & Kate Sewell’s home (address TBA)
October
Sat 15th	TBA	BORM Reading Meeting House

Photo by Liz Matthews

Newsletter

We now publish our monthly newsletter online in PDF format. For reasons of data privacy and/or copyright, certain information and/or images may have been removed from the online version. If you would like to receive the full newsletter each month, please send an email to newsletter@abingdonquakers.org.uk and we will add you to the circulation list.

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Diary

Date	Time	Event details
Sun 3rd	10:15am	Meeting for Worship followed by Meeting for Worship for Business Northcourt Centre
Thurs 7th	7–8:30pm	OSAM Safeguarding meeting for members and attenders Zoom
	7:30pm	Outreach Meeting for Worship St Ethelwold’s
Sat 9th	10:30am	All-Age Area Meeting Faringdon Meeting House
Sun 10th	10:30am	Meeting for Worship St Ethelwold’s garden (Garden Room if wet)
Fri 15th	7pm	Friday with Friends: Jane Mactggart Oxford Meeting House
Sun 17th	10:15am	Meeting for Worship Northcourt Centre
	Afternoon	Children’s Outing
Tues 19th	8pm	Abingdon Peace Group Zoom
Wed 20th	7:30pm	Abingdon Carbon Cutters St Ethelwold’s House
Thurs 21st	7:30pm	Meeting for Worship on Zoom
Sun 24th	10:15am	Meeting for Worship Northcourt Centre
Sun 31st	10:15am	Meeting for Worship Northcourt Centre

Photo by Liz Matthews

Newsletter

We now publish our monthly newsletter online in PDF format. For reasons of data privacy and/or copyright, certain information and/or images may have been removed from the online version. If you would like to receive the full newsletter each month, please send an email to newsletter@abingdonquakers.org.uk and we will add you to the circulation list.

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Diary

Please remember to bring your face covering to indoor Meetings for Worship. Thank you!

Date	Time	Event details
Thurs 2nd	11am–3pm	CiA activities at the Platinum Jubilee Festival Rye Farm
	7:30pm	Outreach Meeting for Worship St Ethelwold’s
Sun 5th	10:15am	Meeting for Worship Northcourt Centre
Thurs 9th	7–8:30pm	OSAM Safeguarding meeting for DBS verifiers and those involved in nominations Zoom
Sun 12th	10:30am	Meeting for Worship followed by Special Meeting for Business St Ethelwold’s garden (Garden Room if wet)
Thurs 16th	7–8:30pm	OSAM Safeguarding meeting for those involved in children’s and young people’s work Zoom
	7:30pm	Meeting for Worship on Zoom
Wed 15th	7:30pm	Abingdon Carbon Cutters Venue TBC
Sun 19th	10:15am	Meeting for Worship Northcourt Centre
Tues 21st	8pm	Abingdon Peace Group Zoom
Sun 26th	10:15am	Meeting for Worship Northcourt Centre
Thurs 30th	7–8:30pm	OSAM Safeguarding meeting for Spiritual and Pastoral Care Groups Zoom

Photo by Liz Matthews

Newsletter

We now publish our monthly newsletter online in PDF format. For reasons of data privacy and/or copyright, certain information and/or images may have been removed from the online version. If you would like to receive the full newsletter each month, please send an email to newsletter@abingdonquakers.org.uk and we will add you to the circulation list.

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Diary

Before attending an indoor Meeting for Worship, please take a lateral flow test (if possible) and remember to bring your face covering. Thank you!

Date	Time	Event details
Sun 1st	10:15am	Meeting for Worship followed by Business Meeting Northcourt Centre
Thurs 5th	7:30pm	Outreach Meeting for Worship St Ethelwold’s
Sun 8th	10:30am	Meeting for Worship St Ethelwold’s garden (Garden Room if wet)
Sun 15th	10:15am	Meeting for Worship Northcourt Centre
	After Meeting	Bring & Share Lunch Roger Baker’s home
Thurs 19th	3pm	Area Meeting Charney Manor
	7:30pm	Meeting for Worship on Zoom
Sun 22nd	10:15am	Meeting for Worship Northcourt Centre
Sun 29th	10:15am	Meeting for Worship, joining YM in spirit (see page 5) Northcourt Centre

Photo by Liz Matthews

Newsletter

We now publish our monthly newsletter online in PDF format. For reasons of data privacy and/or copyright, certain information and/or images may have been removed from the online version. If you would like to receive the full newsletter each month, please send an email to newsletter@abingdonquakers.org.uk and we will add you to the circulation list.

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Diary

Indoor Meetings for Worship remain subject to the Covid precautions in place at our venues. Please take a lateral flow test before you come (if possible) and remember to bring your face covering. Thank you!

Date	Time	Event details
Sun 3rd	10:15am	Meeting for Worship Northcourt Centre
Thurs 7th	7:30pm	Outreach Meeting for Worship St Ethelwold’s House
Sun 10th	10:30am	Meeting for Worship Garden or Garden room, St Ethelwold’s House
Wed 13th	7:30pm	Abingdon Carbon Cutters: ’20-Minute Neighbourhoods’ St Ethelwold’s House
Thurs 14th	7:30pm	Meeting for Worship on Zoom
Sun 17th	10:15am	Meeting for Worship Northcourt Centre
Tues 19th	8pm	Abingdon Peace Group: ‘The Ukraine Crisis’ Zoom
Thurs 21st	7:30pm	Meeting for Worship on Zoom
Sat 23rd	10:30am	Regional Meeting Oxford Meeting House and Zoom
Sun 24th	10:15am	Meeting for Worship Northcourt Centre
Thurs 28th	7:30pm	Meeting for Worship on Zoom
May
Sun 1st	11:40am	Business Meeting
Sun 15th	TBA	Bring & Share Lunch
Thurs 19th	3pm	Area Meeting Charney Manor

Photo by Liz Matthews

Indoor Meetings for Worship remain subject to the Covid precautions in place at our venues. Please take a lateral flow test before you come (if possible) and remember to bring your face covering. Thank you!

From April 2022 we will also be publishing an abridged version of our newsletter on this page.

Date	Time	Event details
Thurs 3rd	7:30pm	Outreach Meeting for Worship (blended) St Ethelwold’s & Zoom
Fri 4th	2:30pm	World Day of Prayer service (see our February newsletter) Salvation Army, West St Helen St
Sun 6th	10:15am	Meeting for Worship Northcourt Centre
Thurs 10th	7:30pm	Meeting for Worship on Zoom
Sat 12th	10:30am	Area Meeting & Spiritual Nurture session Charlbury Meeting House & Zoom
Sun 13th	10:30am	Meeting for Worship Garden or Garden room, St Ethelwold’s
Tues 15th	7:30pm	Abingdon Peace Group Zoom
Wed 16th	7:30pm	Abingdon Carbon Cutters Zoom
Thurs 17th	7:30pm	Meeting for Worship on Zoom
Sun 20th	10:15am	Meeting for Worship Northcourt Centre
Thurs 24th	7:30pm	Meeting for Worship on Zoom
Sun 27th	10:15am	Meeting for Worship Northcourt Centre
Tues 29th	7:30pm	Silent Reflections incl. optional labyrinth walk (see our November 2022 newsletter) St Michael & All Angels Church

Photo of snowdrops in Close’s Field, Cumnor, by Liz Matthews