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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 […]
10/09/2019
Spaghetti and pesto for lunch Rosie Carnall I was on lunch preparation duty on the first day of our working retreat at Borgo Basino, a hilltop […]
09/08/2019
‘Life on a Knife Edge’ – two perspectives from our time in Calais In July a group of eleven QVA volunteers went to Calais to volunteer […]
15/03/2019
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 […]
17/01/2019
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 […]
31/12/2018
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 […]
19/11/2018
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 […]
29/10/2018
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 […]
16/08/2018
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” […]