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March 15, 2019
On witnessing another world just round the corner A few weeks ago I went to Calais for a few days to volunteer in the Auberge de […]
January 17, 2019
Poem: This Earth is a Garden, inspired by a QVA working retreat in Swarthmoor Hall Anneke Kraakman Quaker Voluntary Action Gardening Retreat , October 2018, Swarthmoor […]
December 31, 2018
High Wycombe working retreat, December 2018 On a crisp December weekend, QVA volunteers redecorated Mellor House, which has just been purchased by Chilterns Area Quaker Meeting […]
November 19, 2018
Picking olives at Ein Ya Broud Annie Delahunty shares a reflection on the October 2018 QVA working retreat in Israel-Palestine. It was a steep and rocky […]
October 29, 2018
Swarthmoor Hall working retreat, September 2018 Simon Watkins Wherever you stand the space around you tells many stories. The loudest is written in the here and […]
August 16, 2018
The Pales working retreat 2018 Alison Smedley “How then, shall we lay hold of that life and power, and live the life of prayer without ceasing” […]