Calendar

This listing includes events and activities in the north of Britain and further afield, Quaker and non-Quaker. Where we are not the organiser, we  give links to the groups or individuals to contact where we have these.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, most of the events currently listed are online.
Please let us know of any additions or changes that are needed

• January 2021

  • Monday 4 to Sunday 28 Feb — Climate Crisis, Faith & Witness Reading Group
    Woodbroke course. For information see website.
  • Monday 4 to Wednesday 3 Feb — Thinking NonViolently
    Woodbroke course. For anyone who wants to be part of a more peaceful world. See website for details.
  • Wednesday 6 to Saturday 27 Feb — Facing Up To Conflict
    4 week course. For details see website.
  • Thursday 21 — Why A ‘Wooden’ Northumbrian Will Spell A Brighter Future
    Paul Brennan, Chair of North East of England Climate Coalition. Hexham Debates. For invitation and zoom link, sign up here
  • Friday 22 — Celebration of TPNW entry into force
    online gathering to celebrate the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons with a short Thanksgiving Service hosted by the Network of Christian Peace Organisations.  11:30am
  • Friday 22 — Celebration of Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapona
    Gathering to celebrate the TPNW. 11,30-1.00pm. On Zoom.
  • Friday 22 — Let’s Celebrate the TPNW
    International Peace Bureau. 1pm virtual party. Register here.
  • Friday 22 — Music to Celebrate the TPNW
    Join Musicians for Peace & Disarmament for an evening of celebration. 7.30pm. Register here.
  • Monday 25 — Help Stop The Horror
    Join the global protest against war in Yemen. Stop the War Coalition. Online rally, 7pm.
  • Monday 25 — International Day of Action on Yemen
    https://www.stopwar.org.uk/article/call-to-protest-world-says-no-to-war-on-yemen-25-jan-2021/
  • Saturday 30 to Saturday 20 Feb — Facing Up To Conflict Level 1
    AVP. 10am-12pm, 2.00pm-4.00pm. 4/4

• February 2021

  • Saturday 6 — Climate Crisis: Young People’s Perspectives on Their Future
    Hexham Debates, facilitated by Tyndale Transformed. For invitation and zoom link sign up here.
  • Thursday 11 — Online Facilitation 101
    training event offered by CAAT
  • Saturday 27 — What can the pandemic teach us about a good society?
    Hexham Debates. Helen Salisbury, for invitation and zoom like see hear.

• March 2021

  • Saturday 13 — Power to the people – Shaping UK climate policy through deliberative democracy.
    Gwen Buck, Policy adviser, Green Alliance. For invitation and zoom like, here.
  • Saturday 20 — Population
    Simon Beard, Academic Programme Manager and Senior Research Associate in the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, Cambridge University. For invitation and zoom link, see here.

• April 2021

  • Saturday 10 — No Climate Justice – No Peace.

    Molly Scott Cato, Professor of Green Economics, Roehampton University. Invitation and zoom link here.

  • Friday 23 — Bradford candlelit vigil to mark TPNW entry into force
    Join Bradford CND for a socially distanced candle lit walk around the lake in Lister Park to celebrate nuclear weapons becoming illegal under international law this year. Join the walk anytime between 8:30 and 9:00pm

• May 2021

  • Saturday 15 — Housing as a Human Right

    Hexham Debates.Tony Cain, ALACHO Policy Manager. Invitation and zoom link here.

  • Thursday 20 to Saturday 22 — Possibilities of Peace Education: Evidence & Opportunities
    Quaker Council for European Affairs conference in Brussels. Online. More details here.

• June 2021

  • Monday 21 — Has the United Nations a future?

    Paul Rogers, Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies at Bradford University. Invitation and zoom link here.