Dear Friends, I have been asked to share news from Sheffield Central Local Meeting with you all. We are sorry to have to let you know that we are closing the lettings business at Sheffield Central Quaker Meeting House. Our current lettings arrangement - sharing our Meeting House with many groups, regular and one-off users of spaces for an evening or a day - is no longer financially viable. From end September 2023 we will not be offering single session room hire. We are closing the business but not the building and Quaker Meetings and other activities will continue. If you have a booking with us over the next weeks and months you will be contacted with more detailed information. This has been a difficult decision which we have not taken lightly. We are particularly sad to be saying farewell to lots of loyal customers and to our dedicated staff team. While we are sad that we are having to make this change, we hope that this marks a new chapter for our building and our Quaker contribution to the life of the city. We welcome ideas and thoughts from individuals and organisations as we plan for the future use of our building. We would like to offer space to organisations we support / who are in sympathy with Quaker values (https://www.quaker.org.uk/about-quakers/our-values<https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.quaker.org.uk%2fabout-quakers%2four-values&c=E,1,i8nhX8VBurQx8vXzYRHCqNlS4zn37IxdXa_5JOLOWuuuZzc52jqebNnbJnC7hAJUZrtNu7D05L21Ug0S6wy-DpX9GvF3jJPF8aQvvJkirk0FOF39ca3lJc9weAh7&typo=1>) who might be interested in subletting space for office or other longer-term uses. If you are interested in this, or have other ideas and suggestions to share, please contact us. office@sheffieldquakers.org.uk<mailto:office@sheffieldquakers.org.uk> Please hold Friends and colleagues in Sheffield in the light at this time. In friendship, Oliver 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 Twitter<http://twitter.com/BritishQuakers>, Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/BritishQuakers>, YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/quakersinbritain>, and Instagram<https://www.instagram.com/britishquakers/>. CLERKS OF TRUSTEES: Please send TARA documents to supportmeetings@quaker.org.uk<mailto:supportmeetings@quaker.org.uk> All Quakers in Britain staff can be contacted using their usual email addresses or phone numbers. They may be working from home, in Friends House (London), in the Yorkshire Centre (Leeds) or at a base local to them. The Quaker Centre Bookshop and Café<https://www.friendshouse.co.uk/quaker-centre/> (Friends House, London) are open to the public. 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.