Tuesday, 30 September 2025
Thanks to the Hebden Bridge Quakers for this news
Quaker Week 2025: Love Your Neighbour
A call for compassion in a divided world
As tensions rise and divisions deepen across the UK and beyond, Quakers are inviting everyone to pause, reflect, and act on one simple but radical idea: Love Your Neighbour.
In Hebden Bridge, Quakers meet at Royd Square (a social services building), in Bond Street, every Sunday morning from 10:30 – 11:30am.
We now have children's meeting once a month.
During Quaker Week 2025, Quaker Meeting Houses across the UK will open their doors to the public, offering events, discussions, and spaces for quiet reflection.
This year's theme, Love Your Neighbour, speaks directly to the urgent need for compassion and solidarity in the face of growing racism, Islamophobia, antisemitism, and nationalism.
Quakers believe that love is not a passive feeling, but an active principle. As tensions rise and divisions deepen across the UK and beyond, Quakers are inviting everyone to pause, reflect, and act on one simple but radical idea: Love Your Neighbour.
Meetings
Our meetings for worship are based in silence, sometimes with spoken contributions from anyone present. We aim to experience 'that of God', or 'the light deep within ourselves', without creeds. We share values – our Quaker concerns for peace, equality, truth, justice and simplicity.
Origins
Quakers, or the Society of Friends, originated in the 1650s during the ferment of the English Civil War. Historically, Quakers have been involved in prison reform, the anti-slavery movement, reconciliation and peace activities, and the campaign for equal marriage. They were also involved in making chocolate, biscuits and shoes and founding banks, such as Barclays! Early Quakers, like other non-conformists, were barred from attending universities. There's been a Quaker meeting for worship on Sunday mornings in Hebden Bridge since 1991.
We welcome anyone to join us, any Sunday, and especially in Quaker week.
hebdenbridge.quakermeeting.org
Thanks to Catherine and Geoff of the Hebden Bridge Quakers.