2 March 2025 at 19:00 Meeting for Worship
Venue: Online via Zoom
Dear Friend,
As usual, you are warmly invited to the half-hour meeting for worship held on Sunday evenings at 7pm. If you haven’t attended before, we’ve included a message about the meeting below the joining details (the same link and passcode each Sunday)
Please ask for the link via our contact form.
About this online meeting for worship:
Some Friends attend this evening meeting often or occasionally in addition to their own local worship held at another time, while for others this is their only opportunity to worship in community. It's therefore a unique and well-attended occasion when Friends across South Wales join together in worship. Everyone is welcome.
The meeting is open to join after 6:45. We settle into silence just before 7 to enable worship to begin in stillness. During the first 10-15 minutes or so a Friend will offer as ministry a short reading they have chosen, which might be a passage from Quaker faith & practice, or it could be something else. Anyone can offer to bring the reading for a particular Sunday: email to agree a date. What you read is up to you – to choose in advance or decide in the moment.
We share the eldership between us, members and attenders alike, with one Friend each week serving as the elder for that meeting. At 7.30 the elder draws worship to a close and invites us to move into a period of ‘Afterword’, when we hold the stillness – for as long as feels right – for anyone to offer a thought that arose for them in worship, or to respond to the reading or other ministry. Afterword tends to develop naturally into conversation after 15 minutes or so, and the meeting usually closes at around 8pm, but people leave when they are ready.
We look forward to seeing you at meeting for worship.
In friendship
8 March 2025Peace & Social Witness
Venue: Outside Barclays, 1-5, St. David's Way, 28 Working St, St David's Centre, Cardiff CF10 2DP
Organised by Christian Climate Action supported by SWAM's Environment & Sustainability Cluster - who are putting energy into this event and doing only occasional vigils at the Senedd.
Barclays Bank is Europe’s leading fossil fuel investor. Since 2016, Barclays has invested an estimated £150 billion in fossil-fuel companies. We will gather for an hour of silence as an act of grief for those dying because of climate chaos and to pray that Barclays stops funding climate breakdown. Everyone of all faiths and none are welcome to join us in silence, meditation, or prayer.
For more information contact cymruCCA@gmail.com
Second Saturday of the month 11am-12noon
Outside Barclays Bank, Working Street (opposite St John’s Gardens), Cardiff City Centre, CF101GN
From SWAM E&S cluster:
A recent decision was taken to discontinue monthly vigils outside the Senedd, but to hold such vigils on special occasions, including the summer solstice and national climate weeks. We wish to concentrate on joining the monthly vigils set up by Christian Climate Action Cymru outside Barclays Bank on Working Street
The main reason for this decision was that the footfall outside the Senedd is fairly small compared with the hundreds (if not thousands) or people walking up or down The Hayes, which is one of Cardiff's main shopping centres. So we can hand out far more leaflets. We have also begun handing out to young families copies of 'Caring for the Earth We Love', “a booklet for kids (of all ages)”
a JPEG alt text replacement: includes text as in paragraphs 2 & 3 above. Image in centre of our planet with text Earth Vigil, surrounded by images of people taking part in vigils.
9 March 2025 at 19:00 Meeting for Worship
Venue: Online via Zoom
Dear Friend,
As usual, you are warmly invited to the half-hour meeting for worship held on Sunday evenings at 7pm. If you haven’t attended before, we’ve included a message about the meeting below the joining details (the same link and passcode each Sunday)
Please ask for the link via our contact form.
About this online meeting for worship:
Some Friends attend this evening meeting often or occasionally in addition to their own local worship held at another time, while for others this is their only opportunity to worship in community. It's therefore a unique and well-attended occasion when Friends across South Wales join together in worship. Everyone is welcome.
The meeting is open to join after 6:45. We settle into silence just before 7 to enable worship to begin in stillness. During the first 10-15 minutes or so a Friend will offer as ministry a short reading they have chosen, which might be a passage from Quaker faith & practice, or it could be something else. Anyone can offer to bring the reading for a particular Sunday: email to agree a date. What you read is up to you – to choose in advance or decide in the moment.
We share the eldership between us, members and attenders alike, with one Friend each week serving as the elder for that meeting. At 7.30 the elder draws worship to a close and invites us to move into a period of ‘Afterword’, when we hold the stillness – for as long as feels right – for anyone to offer a thought that arose for them in worship, or to respond to the reading or other ministry. Afterword tends to develop naturally into conversation after 15 minutes or so, and the meeting usually closes at around 8pm, but people leave when they are ready.
We look forward to seeing you at meeting for worship.
In friendship
11 March 2025 at 17:00 – 18:00 Not organised by SWAM
Venue: Oriel Glan-yr-afon | The Riverside Gallery, Haverfordwest, SA61 2AN
This might be of interest to west Cymru/Wales Friends and those with an interest in the history of active pacifism in Cymru/Wales (not a Quaker arranged event)
Yn y sgwrs hon bydd Mererid Hopwood yn archwilio sut yr anfonodd 390,296 o fenywod o Gymru Apêl at fenywod yr Unol Daleithiau er mwyn ceisio dod â heddwch i’r byd. Bydd hi’n gofyn beth ellir ei ddysgu gan y weithred hon 101 o flynyddoedd yn ddiweddarach.
Mae Mererid yn Athro’r Gymraeg ac Astudiaethau Celtaidd ym Mhrifysgol Aberystwyth. Mae’n un o Lywyddion Cymdeithas Waldo Williams ac yn Ysgrifennydd Academi Heddwch Cymru. Hi yw Archdderwydd Cymru.
Digwyddiad trwy gyfrwng y Saesneg.
Plîs nodwch fod y digwyddiad hwn yn cael ei gynnal yn Oriel Glan-yr-afon, Hwlffordd.
In this talk, Mererid Hopwood will be exploring the story of how 390,296 Welsh women sent an Appeal to the women of the United States of America in an effort to bring peace to the world, and asking what can be learnt from their actions 101 years later.
Mererid is Professor of Welsh and Celtic Studies at Aberystwyth University. She is one of the Presidents of the Waldo Williams Society and Secretary of Academi Heddwch Cymru (Wales’s national peace insititue). She is the current Archdruid of Wales.
An English language event.
Please note that this event is being held at The Riverside Gallery, Haverfordwest.
LINK TO BOOKING PAGE (free event)
12 March 2025 at 13:00 – 13:40
Venue: Cardiff and Glamorgan Memorial Park and Crematorium in Port Road East, Barry, CF62 9PX
The funeral for our dear Friend Chris Rhodes, a long-standing member of Cardiff Meeting and South Wales Quakers, is to take place on Wednesday, March 12th, 1pm, at Barry Crematorium, also known as Cardiff and Glamorgan Memorial Park and Crematorium in Port Road East, Barry, CF62 9PX.
Scheduled to last 40 minutes, it will be followed afterwards by a wake with refreshments at The Star Inn in Station Road, Dinas Powys, CF64 4DE. Chris's wife Jenny has requested a Quaker-style funeral. All are very welcome to the funeral and wake, and she adds that people can wear whatever they like.
If we receive information on any capacity to join online, we will circulate it as soon as possible.
15 March 2025 at 10:00 – 14:30
Venue: Zoom
The next South Wales Area Meeting will be held via Zoom on Saturday 15 March with sessions in the morning and the afternoon - you are welcome to attend whichever you can, but it is helpful to know if you are coming to just one session.
You will find the Agenda LINKED HERE with linked documents to read in advance of the meeting: click on the links. There are a number of interesting reports which you may wish to read, whether or not you plan to attend.
As well as membership matters, the main items are expected to be the future of Neath Meeting (further information to follow) and reports from Crynwyr Cymru - Quakers in Wales and Meeting for Sufferings. We will be spending time together on some of the matters which have arisen in those meetings including the Minute from North Wales Online meeting about the language we use to express our spiritual experience.
Please inform the clerks and assistant clerk: deborahjrowlands@gmail.com pamgreenup3+SWAM@gmail.com zelie.gross@googlemail.com if you plan to attend, whether as a representative or otherwise, as soon as possible and by 9am on 14 March at the latest, so that the Zoom link and draft minutes can be sent to all those attending (click Reply All to send to all 3 of the clerking team).
Deborah and Pam will be clerking this meeting with Zélie providing technical assistance - see contact details below.
This email is being sent to all Friends who have provided email addresses. Our current practice is to send the agenda and the final minutes of each Area Meeting to Friends directly to encourage wider engagement with AM business. Local meetings may also choose to circulate these communications, in their usual ways, to include newer people who may not yet be known to SWAM. If you would prefer not to receive the agenda and the final minutes personally, please let us know.
Mewn Cyfeillgarwch
In Friendship
Pam Greenup, Deborah Rowlands and Zélie Gross
The SWAM clerking team
16 March 2025 at 19:00 Meeting for Worship
Venue: Online via Zoom
Dear Friend,
As usual, you are warmly invited to the half-hour meeting for worship held on Sunday evenings at 7pm. If you haven’t attended before, we’ve included a message about the meeting below the joining details (the same link and passcode each Sunday)
Please ask for the link via our contact form.
About this online meeting for worship:
Some Friends attend this evening meeting often or occasionally in addition to their own local worship held at another time, while for others this is their only opportunity to worship in community. It's therefore a unique and well-attended occasion when Friends across South Wales join together in worship. Everyone is welcome.
The meeting is open to join after 6:45. We settle into silence just before 7 to enable worship to begin in stillness. During the first 10-15 minutes or so a Friend will offer as ministry a short reading they have chosen, which might be a passage from Quaker faith & practice, or it could be something else. Anyone can offer to bring the reading for a particular Sunday: email to agree a date. What you read is up to you – to choose in advance or decide in the moment.
We share the eldership between us, members and attenders alike, with one Friend each week serving as the elder for that meeting. At 7.30 the elder draws worship to a close and invites us to move into a period of ‘Afterword’, when we hold the stillness – for as long as feels right – for anyone to offer a thought that arose for them in worship, or to respond to the reading or other ministry. Afterword tends to develop naturally into conversation after 15 minutes or so, and the meeting usually closes at around 8pm, but people leave when they are ready.
We look forward to seeing you at meeting for worship.
In friendship
23 March 2025 at 19:00 Meeting for Worship
Venue: Online via Zoom
Dear Friend,
As usual, you are warmly invited to the half-hour meeting for worship held on Sunday evenings at 7pm. If you haven’t attended before, we’ve included a message about the meeting below the joining details (the same link and passcode each Sunday)
Please ask for the link via our contact form.
About this online meeting for worship:
Some Friends attend this evening meeting often or occasionally in addition to their own local worship held at another time, while for others this is their only opportunity to worship in community. It's therefore a unique and well-attended occasion when Friends across South Wales join together in worship. Everyone is welcome.
The meeting is open to join after 6:45. We settle into silence just before 7 to enable worship to begin in stillness. During the first 10-15 minutes or so a Friend will offer as ministry a short reading they have chosen, which might be a passage from Quaker faith & practice, or it could be something else. Anyone can offer to bring the reading for a particular Sunday: email to agree a date. What you read is up to you – to choose in advance or decide in the moment.
We share the eldership between us, members and attenders alike, with one Friend each week serving as the elder for that meeting. At 7.30 the elder draws worship to a close and invites us to move into a period of ‘Afterword’, when we hold the stillness – for as long as feels right – for anyone to offer a thought that arose for them in worship, or to respond to the reading or other ministry. Afterword tends to develop naturally into conversation after 15 minutes or so, and the meeting usually closes at around 8pm, but people leave when they are ready.
We look forward to seeing you at meeting for worship.
In friendship
30 March 2025 at 19:00 Meeting for Worship
Venue: Online via Zoom
Dear Friend,
As usual, you are warmly invited to the half-hour meeting for worship held on Sunday evenings at 7pm. If you haven’t attended before, we’ve included a message about the meeting below the joining details (the same link and passcode each Sunday)
Please ask for the link via our contact form.
About this online meeting for worship:
Some Friends attend this evening meeting often or occasionally in addition to their own local worship held at another time, while for others this is their only opportunity to worship in community. It's therefore a unique and well-attended occasion when Friends across South Wales join together in worship. Everyone is welcome.
The meeting is open to join after 6:45. We settle into silence just before 7 to enable worship to begin in stillness. During the first 10-15 minutes or so a Friend will offer as ministry a short reading they have chosen, which might be a passage from Quaker faith & practice, or it could be something else. Anyone can offer to bring the reading for a particular Sunday: email to agree a date. What you read is up to you – to choose in advance or decide in the moment.
We share the eldership between us, members and attenders alike, with one Friend each week serving as the elder for that meeting. At 7.30 the elder draws worship to a close and invites us to move into a period of ‘Afterword’, when we hold the stillness – for as long as feels right – for anyone to offer a thought that arose for them in worship, or to respond to the reading or other ministry. Afterword tends to develop naturally into conversation after 15 minutes or so, and the meeting usually closes at around 8pm, but people leave when they are ready.
We look forward to seeing you at meeting for worship.
In friendship
6 April 2025 at 19:00 Meeting for Worship
Venue: Online via Zoom
Dear Friend,
As usual, you are warmly invited to the half-hour meeting for worship held on Sunday evenings at 7pm. If you haven’t attended before, we’ve included a message about the meeting below the joining details (the same link and passcode each Sunday)
Please ask for the link via our contact form.
About this online meeting for worship:
Some Friends attend this evening meeting often or occasionally in addition to their own local worship held at another time, while for others this is their only opportunity to worship in community. It's therefore a unique and well-attended occasion when Friends across South Wales join together in worship. Everyone is welcome.
The meeting is open to join after 6:45. We settle into silence just before 7 to enable worship to begin in stillness. During the first 10-15 minutes or so a Friend will offer as ministry a short reading they have chosen, which might be a passage from Quaker faith & practice, or it could be something else. Anyone can offer to bring the reading for a particular Sunday: email to agree a date. What you read is up to you – to choose in advance or decide in the moment.
We share the eldership between us, members and attenders alike, with one Friend each week serving as the elder for that meeting. At 7.30 the elder draws worship to a close and invites us to move into a period of ‘Afterword’, when we hold the stillness – for as long as feels right – for anyone to offer a thought that arose for them in worship, or to respond to the reading or other ministry. Afterword tends to develop naturally into conversation after 15 minutes or so, and the meeting usually closes at around 8pm, but people leave when they are ready.
We look forward to seeing you at meeting for worship.
In friendship
12 April 2025Peace & Social Witness
Venue: Outside Barclays, 1-5, St. David's Way, 28 Working St, St David's Centre, Cardiff CF10 2DP
Organised by Christian Climate Action supported by SWAM's Environment & Sustainability Cluster - who are putting energy into this event and doing only occasional vigils at the Senedd.
Barclays Bank is Europe’s leading fossil fuel investor. Since 2016, Barclays has invested an estimated £150 billion in fossil-fuel companies. We will gather for an hour of silence as an act of grief for those dying because of climate chaos and to pray that Barclays stops funding climate breakdown. Everyone of all faiths and none are welcome to join us in silence, meditation, or prayer.
For more information contact cymruCCA@gmail.com
Second Saturday of the month 11am-12noon
Outside Barclays Bank, Working Street (opposite St John’s Gardens), Cardiff City Centre, CF101GN
From SWAM E&S cluster:
A recent decision was taken to discontinue monthly vigils outside the Senedd, but to hold such vigils on special occasions, including the summer solstice and national climate weeks. We wish to concentrate on joining the monthly vigils set up by Christian Climate Action Cymru outside Barclays Bank on Working Street
The main reason for this decision was that the footfall outside the Senedd is fairly small compared with the hundreds (if not thousands) or people walking up or down The Hayes, which is one of Cardiff's main shopping centres. So we can hand out far more leaflets. We have also begun handing out to young families copies of 'Caring for the Earth We Love', “a booklet for kids (of all ages)”
a JPEG alt text replacement: includes text as in paragraphs 2 & 3 above. Image in centre of our planet with text Earth Vigil, surrounded by images of people taking part in vigils.
13 April 2025 at 19:00 Meeting for Worship
Venue: Online via Zoom
Dear Friend,
As usual, you are warmly invited to the half-hour meeting for worship held on Sunday evenings at 7pm. If you haven’t attended before, we’ve included a message about the meeting below the joining details (the same link and passcode each Sunday)
Please ask for the link via our contact form.
About this online meeting for worship:
Some Friends attend this evening meeting often or occasionally in addition to their own local worship held at another time, while for others this is their only opportunity to worship in community. It's therefore a unique and well-attended occasion when Friends across South Wales join together in worship. Everyone is welcome.
The meeting is open to join after 6:45. We settle into silence just before 7 to enable worship to begin in stillness. During the first 10-15 minutes or so a Friend will offer as ministry a short reading they have chosen, which might be a passage from Quaker faith & practice, or it could be something else. Anyone can offer to bring the reading for a particular Sunday: email to agree a date. What you read is up to you – to choose in advance or decide in the moment.
We share the eldership between us, members and attenders alike, with one Friend each week serving as the elder for that meeting. At 7.30 the elder draws worship to a close and invites us to move into a period of ‘Afterword’, when we hold the stillness – for as long as feels right – for anyone to offer a thought that arose for them in worship, or to respond to the reading or other ministry. Afterword tends to develop naturally into conversation after 15 minutes or so, and the meeting usually closes at around 8pm, but people leave when they are ready.
We look forward to seeing you at meeting for worship.
In friendship
20 April 2025 at 19:00 Meeting for Worship
Venue: Online via Zoom
Dear Friend,
As usual, you are warmly invited to the half-hour meeting for worship held on Sunday evenings at 7pm. If you haven’t attended before, we’ve included a message about the meeting below the joining details (the same link and passcode each Sunday)
Please ask for the link via our contact form.
About this online meeting for worship:
Some Friends attend this evening meeting often or occasionally in addition to their own local worship held at another time, while for others this is their only opportunity to worship in community. It's therefore a unique and well-attended occasion when Friends across South Wales join together in worship. Everyone is welcome.
The meeting is open to join after 6:45. We settle into silence just before 7 to enable worship to begin in stillness. During the first 10-15 minutes or so a Friend will offer as ministry a short reading they have chosen, which might be a passage from Quaker faith & practice, or it could be something else. Anyone can offer to bring the reading for a particular Sunday: email to agree a date. What you read is up to you – to choose in advance or decide in the moment.
We share the eldership between us, members and attenders alike, with one Friend each week serving as the elder for that meeting. At 7.30 the elder draws worship to a close and invites us to move into a period of ‘Afterword’, when we hold the stillness – for as long as feels right – for anyone to offer a thought that arose for them in worship, or to respond to the reading or other ministry. Afterword tends to develop naturally into conversation after 15 minutes or so, and the meeting usually closes at around 8pm, but people leave when they are ready.
We look forward to seeing you at meeting for worship.
In friendship
27 April 2025 at 19:00 Meeting for Worship
Venue: Online via Zoom
Dear Friend,
As usual, you are warmly invited to the half-hour meeting for worship held on Sunday evenings at 7pm. If you haven’t attended before, we’ve included a message about the meeting below the joining details (the same link and passcode each Sunday)
Please ask for the link via our contact form.
About this online meeting for worship:
Some Friends attend this evening meeting often or occasionally in addition to their own local worship held at another time, while for others this is their only opportunity to worship in community. It's therefore a unique and well-attended occasion when Friends across South Wales join together in worship. Everyone is welcome.
The meeting is open to join after 6:45. We settle into silence just before 7 to enable worship to begin in stillness. During the first 10-15 minutes or so a Friend will offer as ministry a short reading they have chosen, which might be a passage from Quaker faith & practice, or it could be something else. Anyone can offer to bring the reading for a particular Sunday: email to agree a date. What you read is up to you – to choose in advance or decide in the moment.
We share the eldership between us, members and attenders alike, with one Friend each week serving as the elder for that meeting. At 7.30 the elder draws worship to a close and invites us to move into a period of ‘Afterword’, when we hold the stillness – for as long as feels right – for anyone to offer a thought that arose for them in worship, or to respond to the reading or other ministry. Afterword tends to develop naturally into conversation after 15 minutes or so, and the meeting usually closes at around 8pm, but people leave when they are ready.
We look forward to seeing you at meeting for worship.
In friendship
15 June 2025 at 19:00 Meeting for Worship
Venue: Online via Zoom
Dear Friend,
As usual, you are warmly invited to the half-hour meeting for worship held on Sunday evenings at 7pm. If you haven’t attended before, we’ve included a message about the meeting below the joining details (the same link and passcode each Sunday)
Please ask for the link via our contact form.
About this online meeting for worship:
Some Friends attend this evening meeting often or occasionally in addition to their own local worship held at another time, while for others this is their only opportunity to worship in community. It's therefore a unique and well-attended occasion when Friends across South Wales join together in worship. Everyone is welcome.
The meeting is open to join after 6:45. We settle into silence just before 7 to enable worship to begin in stillness. During the first 10-15 minutes or so a Friend will offer as ministry a short reading they have chosen, which might be a passage from Quaker faith & practice, or it could be something else. Anyone can offer to bring the reading for a particular Sunday: email to agree a date. What you read is up to you – to choose in advance or decide in the moment.
We share the eldership between us, members and attenders alike, with one Friend each week serving as the elder for that meeting. At 7.30 the elder draws worship to a close and invites us to move into a period of ‘Afterword’, when we hold the stillness – for as long as feels right – for anyone to offer a thought that arose for them in worship, or to respond to the reading or other ministry. Afterword tends to develop naturally into conversation after 15 minutes or so, and the meeting usually closes at around 8pm, but people leave when they are ready.
We look forward to seeing you at meeting for worship.
In friendship
22 June 2025 at 19:00 Meeting for Worship
Venue: Online via Zoom
Dear Friend,
As usual, you are warmly invited to the half-hour meeting for worship held on Sunday evenings at 7pm. If you haven’t attended before, we’ve included a message about the meeting below the joining details (the same link and passcode each Sunday)
Please ask for the link via our contact form.
About this online meeting for worship:
Some Friends attend this evening meeting often or occasionally in addition to their own local worship held at another time, while for others this is their only opportunity to worship in community. It's therefore a unique and well-attended occasion when Friends across South Wales join together in worship. Everyone is welcome.
The meeting is open to join after 6:45. We settle into silence just before 7 to enable worship to begin in stillness. During the first 10-15 minutes or so a Friend will offer as ministry a short reading they have chosen, which might be a passage from Quaker faith & practice, or it could be something else. Anyone can offer to bring the reading for a particular Sunday: email to agree a date. What you read is up to you – to choose in advance or decide in the moment.
We share the eldership between us, members and attenders alike, with one Friend each week serving as the elder for that meeting. At 7.30 the elder draws worship to a close and invites us to move into a period of ‘Afterword’, when we hold the stillness – for as long as feels right – for anyone to offer a thought that arose for them in worship, or to respond to the reading or other ministry. Afterword tends to develop naturally into conversation after 15 minutes or so, and the meeting usually closes at around 8pm, but people leave when they are ready.
We look forward to seeing you at meeting for worship.
In friendship
29 June 2025 at 19:00 Meeting for Worship
Venue: Online via Zoom
Dear Friend,
As usual, you are warmly invited to the half-hour meeting for worship held on Sunday evenings at 7pm. If you haven’t attended before, we’ve included a message about the meeting below the joining details (the same link and passcode each Sunday)
Please ask for the link via our contact form.
About this online meeting for worship:
Some Friends attend this evening meeting often or occasionally in addition to their own local worship held at another time, while for others this is their only opportunity to worship in community. It's therefore a unique and well-attended occasion when Friends across South Wales join together in worship. Everyone is welcome.
The meeting is open to join after 6:45. We settle into silence just before 7 to enable worship to begin in stillness. During the first 10-15 minutes or so a Friend will offer as ministry a short reading they have chosen, which might be a passage from Quaker faith & practice, or it could be something else. Anyone can offer to bring the reading for a particular Sunday: email to agree a date. What you read is up to you – to choose in advance or decide in the moment.
We share the eldership between us, members and attenders alike, with one Friend each week serving as the elder for that meeting. At 7.30 the elder draws worship to a close and invites us to move into a period of ‘Afterword’, when we hold the stillness – for as long as feels right – for anyone to offer a thought that arose for them in worship, or to respond to the reading or other ministry. Afterword tends to develop naturally into conversation after 15 minutes or so, and the meeting usually closes at around 8pm, but people leave when they are ready.
We look forward to seeing you at meeting for worship.
In friendship
6 July 2025 at 19:00 Meeting for Worship
Venue: Online via Zoom
Dear Friend,
As usual, you are warmly invited to the half-hour meeting for worship held on Sunday evenings at 7pm. If you haven’t attended before, we’ve included a message about the meeting below the joining details (the same link and passcode each Sunday)
Please ask for the link via our contact form.
About this online meeting for worship:
Some Friends attend this evening meeting often or occasionally in addition to their own local worship held at another time, while for others this is their only opportunity to worship in community. It's therefore a unique and well-attended occasion when Friends across South Wales join together in worship. Everyone is welcome.
The meeting is open to join after 6:45. We settle into silence just before 7 to enable worship to begin in stillness. During the first 10-15 minutes or so a Friend will offer as ministry a short reading they have chosen, which might be a passage from Quaker faith & practice, or it could be something else. Anyone can offer to bring the reading for a particular Sunday: email to agree a date. What you read is up to you – to choose in advance or decide in the moment.
We share the eldership between us, members and attenders alike, with one Friend each week serving as the elder for that meeting. At 7.30 the elder draws worship to a close and invites us to move into a period of ‘Afterword’, when we hold the stillness – for as long as feels right – for anyone to offer a thought that arose for them in worship, or to respond to the reading or other ministry. Afterword tends to develop naturally into conversation after 15 minutes or so, and the meeting usually closes at around 8pm, but people leave when they are ready.
We look forward to seeing you at meeting for worship.
In friendship
12 July 2025Peace & Social Witness
Venue: Outside Barclays, 1-5, St. David's Way, 28 Working St, St David's Centre, Cardiff CF10 2DP
Organised by Christian Climate Action supported by SWAM's Environment & Sustainability Cluster - who are putting energy into this event and doing only occasional vigils at the Senedd.
Barclays Bank is Europe’s leading fossil fuel investor. Since 2016, Barclays has invested an estimated £150 billion in fossil-fuel companies. We will gather for an hour of silence as an act of grief for those dying because of climate chaos and to pray that Barclays stops funding climate breakdown. Everyone of all faiths and none are welcome to join us in silence, meditation, or prayer.
For more information contact cymruCCA@gmail.com
Second Saturday of the month 11am-12noon
Outside Barclays Bank, Working Street (opposite St John’s Gardens), Cardiff City Centre, CF101GN
From SWAM E&S cluster:
A recent decision was taken to discontinue monthly vigils outside the Senedd, but to hold such vigils on special occasions, including the summer solstice and national climate weeks. We wish to concentrate on joining the monthly vigils set up by Christian Climate Action Cymru outside Barclays Bank on Working Street
The main reason for this decision was that the footfall outside the Senedd is fairly small compared with the hundreds (if not thousands) or people walking up or down The Hayes, which is one of Cardiff's main shopping centres. So we can hand out far more leaflets. We have also begun handing out to young families copies of 'Caring for the Earth We Love', “a booklet for kids (of all ages)”
a JPEG alt text replacement: includes text as in paragraphs 2 & 3 above. Image in centre of our planet with text Earth Vigil, surrounded by images of people taking part in vigils.
13 July 2025 at 19:00 Meeting for Worship
Venue: Online via Zoom
Dear Friend,
As usual, you are warmly invited to the half-hour meeting for worship held on Sunday evenings at 7pm. If you haven’t attended before, we’ve included a message about the meeting below the joining details (the same link and passcode each Sunday)
Please ask for the link via our contact form.
About this online meeting for worship:
Some Friends attend this evening meeting often or occasionally in addition to their own local worship held at another time, while for others this is their only opportunity to worship in community. It's therefore a unique and well-attended occasion when Friends across South Wales join together in worship. Everyone is welcome.
The meeting is open to join after 6:45. We settle into silence just before 7 to enable worship to begin in stillness. During the first 10-15 minutes or so a Friend will offer as ministry a short reading they have chosen, which might be a passage from Quaker faith & practice, or it could be something else. Anyone can offer to bring the reading for a particular Sunday: email to agree a date. What you read is up to you – to choose in advance or decide in the moment.
We share the eldership between us, members and attenders alike, with one Friend each week serving as the elder for that meeting. At 7.30 the elder draws worship to a close and invites us to move into a period of ‘Afterword’, when we hold the stillness – for as long as feels right – for anyone to offer a thought that arose for them in worship, or to respond to the reading or other ministry. Afterword tends to develop naturally into conversation after 15 minutes or so, and the meeting usually closes at around 8pm, but people leave when they are ready.
We look forward to seeing you at meeting for worship.
In friendship
20 July 2025 at 19:00 Meeting for Worship
Venue: Online via Zoom
Dear Friend,
As usual, you are warmly invited to the half-hour meeting for worship held on Sunday evenings at 7pm. If you haven’t attended before, we’ve included a message about the meeting below the joining details (the same link and passcode each Sunday)
Please ask for the link via our contact form.
About this online meeting for worship:
Some Friends attend this evening meeting often or occasionally in addition to their own local worship held at another time, while for others this is their only opportunity to worship in community. It's therefore a unique and well-attended occasion when Friends across South Wales join together in worship. Everyone is welcome.
The meeting is open to join after 6:45. We settle into silence just before 7 to enable worship to begin in stillness. During the first 10-15 minutes or so a Friend will offer as ministry a short reading they have chosen, which might be a passage from Quaker faith & practice, or it could be something else. Anyone can offer to bring the reading for a particular Sunday: email to agree a date. What you read is up to you – to choose in advance or decide in the moment.
We share the eldership between us, members and attenders alike, with one Friend each week serving as the elder for that meeting. At 7.30 the elder draws worship to a close and invites us to move into a period of ‘Afterword’, when we hold the stillness – for as long as feels right – for anyone to offer a thought that arose for them in worship, or to respond to the reading or other ministry. Afterword tends to develop naturally into conversation after 15 minutes or so, and the meeting usually closes at around 8pm, but people leave when they are ready.
We look forward to seeing you at meeting for worship.
In friendship
27 July 2025 at 19:00 Meeting for Worship
Venue: Online via Zoom
Dear Friend,
As usual, you are warmly invited to the half-hour meeting for worship held on Sunday evenings at 7pm. If you haven’t attended before, we’ve included a message about the meeting below the joining details (the same link and passcode each Sunday)
Please ask for the link via our contact form.
About this online meeting for worship:
Some Friends attend this evening meeting often or occasionally in addition to their own local worship held at another time, while for others this is their only opportunity to worship in community. It's therefore a unique and well-attended occasion when Friends across South Wales join together in worship. Everyone is welcome.
The meeting is open to join after 6:45. We settle into silence just before 7 to enable worship to begin in stillness. During the first 10-15 minutes or so a Friend will offer as ministry a short reading they have chosen, which might be a passage from Quaker faith & practice, or it could be something else. Anyone can offer to bring the reading for a particular Sunday: email to agree a date. What you read is up to you – to choose in advance or decide in the moment.
We share the eldership between us, members and attenders alike, with one Friend each week serving as the elder for that meeting. At 7.30 the elder draws worship to a close and invites us to move into a period of ‘Afterword’, when we hold the stillness – for as long as feels right – for anyone to offer a thought that arose for them in worship, or to respond to the reading or other ministry. Afterword tends to develop naturally into conversation after 15 minutes or so, and the meeting usually closes at around 8pm, but people leave when they are ready.
We look forward to seeing you at meeting for worship.
In friendship