The most useful Quaker link is to the website of Britain Yearly Meeting, which is the central body representing Quakers throughout the UK. Here you will find websites of other Quaker meetings, details of accommodation in London as well as information on Quakerism itself.

• LINKS TO LOCAL PLACES OF INTEREST

If you visit Bunhill Fields Meeting, you may like to know venues in the vicinity which some of our members and attenders like to visit after Meeting.

We are very near one of London's biggest arts centres, The Barbican.

The Museum of London is also nearby.

And the Meeting House is but a stone's throw away from Hoxton Square, which is helping to make London's East End famous as a centre of the visual arts.

Not far from Hoxton Square is a pretty, small theatre and arts centre, Hoxton Hall. This is owned by the Quakers, though not run by them.

• ISSUES

A brief survey held at the Meeting on 10 October 1999 - the day of the launch of this website - asked those present what issues were of importance to them. They were asked, where appropriate, to suggest a name of an organisation working in the field:-

UN High Commission for Refugees

Jubilee 2000 working to cancel the debt owed by developing countries.

Quaker Peace and Social Witness

Alternatives to Violence Project

Black Information Link - The 1990 Trust. Anti-Racism.

Quakers United Nations Office (QUNO) particularly their peace work.

People First. The rights of people with learning disabilities - particularly self-advocacy.

Quaker Social Action - a variety of work with the disadvantaged in the East End of London.

Friends Office on National Legislation (FONL) - legislation concerns of Quakers in the USA.

Broadening education - particularly the sixth form curriculum See also the site for The British Association Promoting Science and technology.

• ALSO, FOR INTEREST, SEE...

...the site for Falls Meeting, the original Meeting of Lisa Bowers Isaacson, one of our Elders. It is part of Bucks Quarterly Meeting, which in turn is part of Phildelphia Yearly Meeting.

This part of Pennsylvania provides a rich example of what the operation of Quaker testimonies can supply - with vibrant organisations finding imaginative solutions to a variety of social needs for the wider community.

One interesting site to demonstrate this work is Chandler Hall, where Lisa's father, Willard Bowers is Secretary of the Board.

You can obtain books on various aspects of Quakerism from our Friend, Peter Daniels', Pronoun Press.

In 2008 Peter won the Arvon International Poetry Prize and the Ted Hughes Environmental Prize. You can read some of his poetry on his website.