Working retreats
QVA organises working retreats in Britain, Europe and beyond. Volunteers
participate in practical projects and reflective sessions that promote
personal spiritual development with meaningful engagement in the world. A
range of activities may include gardening, renovation, olive
harvesting, decorating, sustainability and woodland management.
News
Read abour our latest news here.
We also publish our newsletter each year which gives reports of the previous year’s projects and articles by our volunteers and facilitators. If you have participated on a working retreat and would be happy to share your experience in our newsletter, please get in touch.
BLOG
Recent posts on our blog
September 13, 2020
Looking forward to a fresh beginning Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, our retreat programme has been on hold. We have been using the time […]
July 7, 2020
Hello from the new interim Working Retreats Co-ordinator It was thrilling earlier in the year to hear that Hannah Brock Womack, QVA’s permanent Working Retreats Co-ordinator, […]
May 6, 2020
Resources for our theme, ‘God in the movement of peoples’ QVA’s theme in 2019 and early 2020 was ‘God in the movement of peoples’. In our […]
March 6, 2020
QVA volunteers help redecorate a house for asylum seekers Over a long weekend in February, QVA volunteers helped redecorate four bedrooms of a house belonging to ASSIST […]
January 10, 2020
Making the invisible visible Anna Seifert In early November Debby Flack and I from our area meeting joined a group of UK Friends on a Quaker […]
December 20, 2019
Three poems about the Holy Land Scottish poet Anne B. Murray was part of our working retreat group in Israel-Palestine in October 2019. She shared three […]
GALLERY
Some of our photos from the past 10 years
