Ollie Waterhouse Quaker Life Hello everyone, I trust that you are all well and 2025 has begun well for you. I am writing with an update about Meeting House Matters in 2025. It will take a slightly different format this year with fewer online meetings. But there will still be three in-person opportunities at different Quaker venues in locations that should mean that everyone can reach one. I am working on the pattern of meetings being as follows: * Wednesday, 12 February (online) 2pm to 3:30pm * Tuesday, 29 April (in person with online session) Southern England, venue tbc 10am to 4pm * Tuesday, 10 June (in person with online session) West England or South-East Wales, venue tbc 10am to 4pm * Wednesday, 20 August (online) 2pm to 3:30pm * Tuesday, 21 October (in person with online session) North-East England, venue tbc 10am to 4pm * Tuesday, 16 December (online) 10:30am to 12 noon In person meetings may be subject to change depending on venue availability. A booking form for the in-person events will be available soon. There is no need to book to join any of the online sessions. I work with a super planning group who help make the sessions happen. The group is always looking for topic ideas for the sessions to try to make them varied and relevant. If you have a topic suggestion please let me know so we can see if we can build a schedule for the year's events. All meetings will either be online or have an online element to them which will be held on Zoom. The joining details for all meetings are below. * Join Zoom Meeting: https://quaker.zoom.us/j/81586087624?pwd=aYxukeWCrw0Z80E9OuxIuJuZvXr8do.1 * Meeting ID: 815 8608 7624 * Passcode: MHM-online I look forward to seeing you at some point during the year if you can join one of the sessions. In friendship, Ollie Oliver Waterhouse (he/him) Quaker Life Team Leader, Local and Area Governance Quakers in Britain 020 7663 1007 (Direct) oliverw@quaker.org.uk<mailto:oliverw@quaker.org.uk> | www.quaker.org.uk<http://www.quaker.org.uk/> Follow Quakers in Britain on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/BritishQuakers>, YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/quakersinbritain>, Instagram<https://www.instagram.com/britishquakers/> and Bluesky<https://bsky.app/profile/britishquakers.bsky.social>. The Quaker Centre Bookshop and Café<https://www.friendshouse.co.uk/quaker-centre/> are open to the public. Friends House is open for meetings and events. All enquiries welcome to events@quaker.org.uk<mailto:events@quaker.org.uk> or www.friendshouse.co.uk/booking-enquiry. If you would like to support our work, you can give online at www.quaker.org.uk/donate. Britain Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) Registered charity number 1127633 | Friends House, 173 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BJ ________________________________ Quakers say: Religion is about the whole of life.