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Gloucestershire Area Quaker Meeting
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Cheltenham Quaker Meeting is part of Gloucestershire Area
Quaker Meeting (GAQM). On the GAQM website you can find out
more about all the other Local Meetings within the Area Meeting.
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Britain Yearly Meeting
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Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) is the administrative unit covering all
Friends in Great Britain. The BYM website provides information about
all the Meetings in the country, and much more comprehensive
information about Quakers generally than we can offer here.
It has a bookshop you can browse and order from online.
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Quakers in the World
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Quakers have a long tradition of being active in, and seeking to
make a difference to, the world in which they find themselves.
In their actions they seek to put Quaker testimonies such as
equality, peace and integrity into practice, as best they can.
This website aims to bring together the many different ways
in which they have done this, all over the world.
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The Religious Society of Friends
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This website provides access to Quaker information and resources
worldwide, with a strong emphasis on the USA.
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Photographs of Quaker Meeting Houses
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John Hall’s flickr photostream of Quaker Meeting Houses, mostly in Britain
and a few overseas. There are sets grouped by county. John also offers
digital and paper books with photos and essays.
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Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre
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Woodbrooke, in the southwest of Birmingham, is a great
resource for Quaker and related studies.
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Information on Quakerism
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Online resources on the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers);
faith, history, leading personalities and practice. Many links to
Quakers in the news today.
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Swarthmoor Hall
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An historic Quaker house, home of Margaret Fell and George Fox.
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Glenthorne
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Country Guest House and Quaker Conference Centre
(bed and breakfast and self-catering accommodation) in
Grasmere, The Lake District, Cumbria, UK.
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Charney Manor
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A Quaker conference and retreat centre in Oxfordshire.
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Claridge House
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Quaker Centre for Healing, Rest and Renewal.
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The Friend
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Weekly Magazine - Independent Quaker journalism since 1843.
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Living Witness Project
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Aims to support the development of Quaker corporate witness to sustainable living and explore ways of taking it to the wider community in Britain and elsewhere.
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Quaker Homeless Action
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The main objective of Quaker Homeless Action is to alleviate the poverty and distress of homeless people in the UK.
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Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, USA
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In about 1682, 15 Quakers from Gloucestershire founded Cheltenham
township in Pennsylvania. The 2 who came from Cheltenham obviously
picked the name for their new home!
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Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, USA
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Cheltenham’s twin town in Pennsylvania, USA
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ACT International
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An international alliance of churches and emergency relief agencies.
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Charities Aid Foundation
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CAF provides resources for tax-efficient giving to charities.
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Charity Choice
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Listings and directories of charities.
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Churches Together in Britain & Ireland
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Churches Together in Britain & Ireland (CTBI) was formerly known as the
Council of Churches in Britain & Ireland (CCBI).
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Positive Justice Gloucestershire
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A local organisation dedicated to reforming the justice system.
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Changing Tunes
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A charity providing resources for rehabilitation through music.
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The James Nayler Foundation
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Rehabilitation methods and practices.
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Alternatives to Violence Project
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The Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP)
organises group workshops for people from
all walks of life who want to handle conflict well
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Conscience
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conscience TAXES FOR PEACE NOT WAR works for a world where taxes
are used to nurture peace, not pay for war. It was founded in
1979 as the Peace Tax Campaign.
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Campaign Against Arms Trade
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Does what it says on the tin - campaigns in many ways to expose the
evils of selling weapons, and the hidden links between governments
and the manufacture and marketing of arms.
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The Quiet Garden Trust
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Encourages the provision of a variety of local venues where there is an opportunity to set aside time to rest and to pray.
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The Retreat Asssociation
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Helps people find ways of exploring and deepening their personal spiritual journey.
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Cheltenham by MultiMap
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MultiMap provides internet access to plans and maps covering the whole of
the UK (and beyond) at various scales. The link on the left opens to a
map of Cheltenham, at a scale of 1:50000, centred approximately
on the Meeting House, using the PostCode as a location reference.
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Cheltenham on the web
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A general-purpose information website for Cheltenham - a bit like an online version of a local freesheet.
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Transition Town Cheltenham
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Cheltenham is now involved in the transition away from reliance on oil and other fossil fuels.
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Vision 21 Gloucestershire
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Vision 21 fosters local solutions to global problems such as climate change and energy resources.
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Cheltenham Borough Council
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Information on local government facilities at the town level.
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GlosNet - Gloucestershire County Council
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Information on local facilities and organisations at the county level.
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Greenbelt Christian Arts Festival
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Greenbelt is now established as a regular August Bank Holiday fixture
at Cheltenham racecourse. Friends from Cheltenham Quaker Meeting
usually arrange one or two Meetings
for Worship during the Festival, to which everyone is welcome.
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Jo Teakle’s Video Nation piece
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Jo Teakle attends Cheltenham Quaker Meeting.
While working for a PhD, she did
extensive research on her Quaker ancestors,
and became aware of how they had been active in the
movement towards the
abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. The link is to
a video piece she prepared for BBC’s Video Nation project,
about her research and its relevance in the year of the 200th
anniversary of the UK’s abolition of the slave trade.
You’ll need a broadband connexion to play the video.
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Jane Mace’s blog from Palestine
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Jane Mace is a Member of Gloucestershire Area Quaker Meeting.
During part of 2009, she is working in Palestine as an ecumenical
accompanier, and the link is to her own account of her experiences there.
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Mike Burch’s blog
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Mike Burch, a member of Gloucestershire Area Quaker Meeting,
writes about his life as a Quaker and revealing the strategies
he uses for coping with life with a disability.
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