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Quaker Service Memorial month – March 2012 – Invitation to local Meetings to participate
Shared lunch & talk
Dorking Friends invite you to a shared lunch on Sunday 25th March 2012, from midday. This will be followed by a presentation and discussion about the Quaker Service Memorial being built at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, and the subsequent Outreach work that it will become the focus for “exhibitions, family histories, Peace issues and the relationship of Quaker relief in & after WWII to current issues of refugees & asylum seekers”. This quote is in the email from Helen Lockwood, a trustee of the Quaker Service Memorial Trust, when she accepted our invitation to speak on the day.
Exhibition of our records from WWI & II
We are also planning to bring together all the information & personal histories that we have of Quaker service in the Friends Ambulance Service and Friends Relief Service across the Area Meeting. Your meeting will probably have captured some of this from its members, and hold records. We’d like to borrow them, but if this is a problem then we’d invite you to let us know what you have (a list with brief descriptions), and where it is held.
More?
It may also be the last time that some elderly Friends have the opportunity of sharing what they have not said before. We’d be happy to record this, either written after interview or as a sound recording.
Post WWII collection
And in addition to this it would be a good opportunity to record the Quaker Peace service of local and Area Friends since WWII. Who are these people? Can they be persuaded to participate? Your help in identifying and encouraging them would be appreciated.
EAPPI Talk
The Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) is managed by Quaker Peace and Social Witness in the UK.
EAPPI sends international volunteers (usually for 3 months) to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. These volunteers...
We would welcome anyone from Area Meeting who would like to join us for this talk.
But how we organise the talk will depend on how many people are likely to come.
So if you are interested please contact Tony Cocks on 01403 262 393, so that he knows the likely numbers coming and can keep you informed about the arrangements.
Shared lunch & talk
Dorking Friends invite you to a shared lunch on Sunday 25th March 2012, from midday. This will be followed by a presentation and discussion about the Quaker Service Memorial being built at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, and the subsequent Outreach work that it will become the focus for “exhibitions, family histories, Peace issues and the relationship of Quaker relief in & after WWII to current issues of refugees & asylum seekers”. This quote is in the email from Helen Lockwood, a trustee of the Quaker Service Memorial Trust, when she accepted our invitation to speak on the day.Exhibition of our records from WWI & II
We are also planning to bring together all the information & personal histories that we have of Quaker service in the Friends Ambulance Service and Friends Relief Service across the Area Meeting. Your meeting will probably have captured some of this from its members, and hold records. We’d like to borrow them, but if this is a problem then we’d invite you to let us know what you have (a list with brief descriptions), and where it is held.
More?
It may also be the last time that some elderly Friends have the opportunity of sharing what they have not said before. We’d be happy to record this, either written after interview or as a sound recording.
Post WWII collection
And in addition to this it would be a good opportunity to record the Quaker Peace service of local and Area Friends since WWII. Who are these people? Can they be persuaded to participate? Your help in identifying and encouraging them would be appreciated.
If you are interested or can help please contact Lois Lodge on 01306 885250.
EAPPI TalkThe Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) is managed by Quaker Peace and Social Witness in the UK.
EAPPI sends international volunteers (usually for 3 months) to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. These volunteers...
- Monitor and report violations of human rights and international humanitarian law
- Offer protection through nonviolent presence
- Support Israeli and Palestinian peace activists
- Give talks when they return
We would welcome anyone from Area Meeting who would like to join us for this talk.
But how we organise the talk will depend on how many people are likely to come.
So if you are interested please contact Tony Cocks on 01403 262 393, so that he knows the likely numbers coming and can keep you informed about the arrangements.
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