Here is a link to the AVP Ireland newsletter for June 2025.

The Quaker United Nations Office in Geneva is looking for its next leader. If this could be you, please read the job pack and consider applying. You must be a member of the Religious Society of Friends to be eligible for this role. Application deadline: Friday 18 July 2025.

This EMES newsletter (July 4, 2025) includes items on

• Search for a new director for the Quaker United Nations Office in Geneva

• Pastoral Visit to Friends in Ukraine

• The Quaker Council for European Affair’s new director

• Search for Friends interested in helping to creat a Network for Peacebuilding

You may already be aware that the decision has been made to lay down Rathfarnham Preparative Meeting with effect from 30th September 2025.

Friends are asked to recall their memories of Rathfarnham Meeting. A dedicated email account has been set up for this purpose: rathfarnhammemories@gmail.com.

We hope that Friends will share their memories, whether in the form of photographs, drawing/painting, poetry, or other writing. If sending images, please insert the date, occasion and identity of the figures in the photographs. We have set a deadline of 31st July for email submissions.

A Gathering of Friends will take place on Saturday 13th September in Rathfarnham Meeting House (further details to follow separately but save the date!). We encourage everyone to bring along photographs or memorabilia they may have, to display on tables for all attendees to view.

It is intended to compile writings and images into a Memory Book and make it available to Friends at the end of 2025.

We look forward to receiving and sharing your memories. You can spread the word to those who may be interested using this flyer.

Anna Harrison, Valerie Howard

Free guided walks around the Temple Hill Quaker Burial Ground – one of Dublin’s most unusual graveyards – will be given on Tuesdays in July and August at 4.15pm. The tour lasts about an hour. More information can be found on this leaflet about the tours.

All Friends of all ages are invited to join an All Age Gathering of Friends in Europe and the Middle East in August 2026. We hope to spend time together getting to know each other, in worship, discussion and play.

The gathering will be held at at Haus Altenberg, where there are a variety of bedroom sizes suitable for families, groups and individuals. Haus Altenberg is located in a beautiful valley with woodland walks and bikes to hire close by. It is approximately one hour from Cologne by public transport.

We hope you can join us!

More details will be shared in the autumn of 2025. Please contact AAG2026@fwccemes.org if you have any questions.

The latest FWCC EMES newsletter (June 2025) is now available.

This newsletter includes information about

• The EMES All-Age Gathering for 2026
• Among Friends
• Pastoral Visit to the Middle East
• World Quaker Day (October 5)
• Weekly Meeting for Worship to Pray for Peace
• FWCC Climate Emergency Fund

All are warmly invited to attend the Annual Gathering of Friends in Italy, which will take place at the Casa Guscella, Camugnano, BO.

To confirm your attendance, kindly RSVP by June 23, 2025 to Clerk Jeannette Law at admin@sageadvising,net or (+39) 340-876-5522.

Requests may be received afterwards, however on a space-available basis. Please let us know about:

● Your cell phone contact details

● Any mobility concerns

● Your dietary requirements

● Housing preferences, including name of roommate and/or bedmate

Friends will be participating in Dublin Pride on Saturday 28^th June, carrying the DAQC banner with the words ‘Dublin Area Quaker Community – Peace, Equality, Simplicity, Integrity’. 

Taking part will be a practical and visible way to demonstrate our testimony to equality, letting people know that Quaker Meetings offer a safe, welcoming and supportive space to all. 

It is not necessary to identify as LGBTQIA+ to take part (many Pride participants are allies – supporters, friends or family members).

If  you’d  like to  be  part  of  the  Quaker  contingent,  please get  in  touch  with  Fiona  Murdoch  via  the office for information about where to go to join the Quaker continent (planned assembly time is 11.30). Email – office@quakers.ie   Phone: 014998003 

Britain Yearly Meeting took place at Friends House London and online over the May Bank Holiday, from Friday 23–Monday 26 May 2025.

A challenging and urgent topic that was considered at BYM this year was the ongoing conflict in Gaza. Minute 30 of BYM 2025 states that genocide is indeed being perpetrated in Gaza, but clearly specifies that this is due to the policy and actions of the current Israeli government, not Israeli citizens in general or Jewish people worldwide. “We cry out for Palestinians and Israelis to be safe and to live thriving, joyous lives in their homelands. Everyone deserves a place to live where they don’t feel scared.”

Britain Yearly Meeting also issued a press release on this topic.

Here is a link to the Epistle from BYM 2025.