Blog
26/01/2021
From ‘Using your gifts’ to ‘Growing connectedness’ Whatever people might say about 2020, the common thread is probably that it didn’t turn out the way anyone […]
04/12/2020
Reflections from the Clerk in challenging times Since becoming Clerk of QVA in July, on the retirement of Jane Robinson who for many years steered the […]
13/09/2020
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 […]
07/07/2020
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, […]
06/05/2020
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 […]
06/03/2020
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 […]
10/01/2020
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 […]
20/12/2019
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 […]
17/12/2019
Leighton Buzzard Working Retreat, October 2019 Leilani Rabemananjara Leighton Buzzard, a small town in Bedfordshire, is where a group of six volunteers, including myself, and two […]