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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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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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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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QuakerWeb
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Many useful resources and links, with a Quaker flavour.
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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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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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Churches together on the internet
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A resource site apparently not connected with CTBI despite the similar name.
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Churchnet
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Listings of churches and groups in UK and worldwide.
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The James Nayler Foundation
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Rehabilitation methods and practices.
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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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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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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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beehive Gloucestershire
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Online facilities for, and listings of, community organisations
in Gloucestershire.
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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 of the "fringe" events on the site, a Meeting
for Worship on the Sunday morning 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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