The Quaker Life Youth, Children, and Families staff team organise events for young Quakers of all ages and offer support to those who are running Quaker events across Britain Yearly Meeting.

There are also network, all-age worshiping communities and regionally based events, which help connect Quaker communities and share good practice.

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    Our events

    Our events aim to bring together children and young people from across Britain Yearly Meeting and to offer opportunities to support their spiritual growth, personal development and understanding of Quaker faith and practice. Participants explore themes in age appropriate creative, fun ways, including through games, stories, discussions, role play, worship, craft-and much more. We hope to encourage children and young people to explore their faith and spiritual lives within their Quaker community.

    Upcoming events

    There are in person events for children and young people running alongside all Meeting for Sufferings in 2024 and 2025 – see Children and Teens @ MfS flyer (PDF). These are split into specific programmes for 0-11s and 11-18s.

    There are in person events for all ages as part of Yearly Meeting – 24-26 May 2025.

    See our events page for more information about each event.

    • For 0-11s: The Children's Programme: 24-26 May 2025
    • For 11-15s: Young People @Yearly Meeting 24-26 May 2025
    • For 16-18s: Junior Yearly Meeting 23-26 May 2025

    Past events

    Each year, after Yearly Meeting events, each of the programmes shares a minute or Epistle with the whole Yearly Meeting. These outline what activities children and young people did and some of the feeling, ideas and questions which emerged.

    To find minutes and Epistles from past events go to the Yearly Meeting pages or see here for specific events:

    Yearly Meeting 2024

    Yearly Meeting 2023

    Events for all-age worshipping communities

    We are committed to offering opportunities for all-age gatherings where this is possible. Information for future events when they are planned will be made available here.

    Network opportunities

    We offer regular opportunities to meet with Quakers across Britain Yearly Meeting (and beyond!) to ask questions, share ideas, good practice and concerns to support each other in our work/interactions with youth, children and families. Find out more about these, including dates and how to book on here: training-opportunities | Quakers in Britain.

    These meetings are also listed on our Events page: Events | Quakers in Britain

    Regional and summer events

    Regional events and Summer events and Link Groups.

    Regional and Link groups are Quaker youth groups for young Quakers from neighbouring area meetings. To find out if there is a link group near you get in touch with CYPadmin@quaker.org.uk.

    Header image © Mike Pinches 2015

    Contact us

    CYP Administrator
    cypadmin@quaker.org.uk
    020 7663 1013