We have received this Letter to Meetings 2026 from Tim Gee, the General Secretary of the Friends World Committee for Consultation.

Please feel free to share with others who may be interested!

Below is a letter from Matt Rosen of Ohio Yearly Meeting about this Young Adult Friends Gathering coming up in August.

Dear Friends,

We’re writing to share news of an upcoming international gathering of Young Adult Friends, to be held at Jordans Friends Meeting House, near Beaconsfield, UK, from 12–16 August 2026. This follows gatherings held in 2024 and 2025, whose epistles can be found here. 

In the midst of a difficult time and a hurting world, we sense that there is life and light in earnestly seeking guidance from a power beyond ourselves. At our gathering last year, we experienced this power as an Inward Voice of Love, and often felt Christ’s presence in and among us. In coming together, we found the sensitivity to listen together to the Divine Voice, and the trust and the strength to follow the Companion who is with us always. We invite you to join us in this experience, as we are gathered by the Spirit.

You can fill out this form to express your interest in joining us, and we will share more information and how to register in the coming months. We hope you will consider whether the Spirit is laying this on your heart.

We need your help to make this gathering possible! We plan to make use of the youth hostel near Jordans but need funding for that, as well as for meals and travel bursaries for Friends coming from further away. Please consider whether you or your meeting can support us. 

We are also providing a flyer for the gathering. Please share this with any young adult Friends who might feel a nudge to join us. 

in the Love that draws us together, 

Matt Rosen, Ohio Yearly Meeting

on behalf of the gathering planning committee

Junior Yearly Meeting (JYM) is a gathering of young Friends and any young people interested in Quakerism in Ireland aged 14-18. We come together to meet, discuss, debate, learn together and connect with each other. And have lots of fun!

JYM 2026 will be held 2-6 April 2026 at the Moyallon Centre near Portadown. The theme will be “Who am I? Journeying as a Young Friend”. You can find some more information, including who to contact for additional info, on this poster. We’ll be keeping the JYM section on the IYM website up to date too, as more information and application forms become available.

Richard Scriven will give a talk on “Holy Wells: A Living Tradition” at the Cork Meeting House on Friday 23 January at 7.00pm. The talk is being given to raise funds for students in Cork from a refugee backgroumd. There is no entry fee, but any donations for this cause will be very welcome. 

Feel free to let others know about the talk using this flyer.

This talk given by Charles Lamb at the Cork Meeting House at 12.30 pm on Sunday 11th January will consider the seeking of George Fox and Elizabeth Hooton in the 1640s, the early message of Friends/Quakers, its roots, fruits and testimonies, including the Peace Testimony.

It will be possible to listen to Charles’ talk online, using the usual Zoom link for Cork Meeting for Worship.  If you’d like to attend the talk online and don’t have the link, please email corkmonthlymeeting@gmail.com and it will be sent to you. If you do join online, please plan on connecting with the Zoom link about 5 minutes early, so there will be time to resolve any Zoom problems before the talk starts. 

Tuesday 6th January 2026

at

82 LOWER CHURCHTOWN ROAD, DUBLIN 14

From 10.30 am – 12 noon

Topic: What Canst Thou Say Friend

This month’s Coffee Morning will be something different – we will be sharing our thoughts on lots of current & Quaker topics and some lighter ones as well.

Speaker: You!

Friends are also welcome to join on Zoom.

You can find more information, including the Zoom link for joining online, in this flyer.

A new Quaker Worship Group is being formed in County Leitrim – a county where there has never before been a Friends’ meeting. Participants at the first meeting came from Donegal, Fermanagh, Leitrim, Sligo and Belfast.

Future meetings of the North West Worship Group are planned for 3:00pm on the second Sunday of the month at Kinlough Community Centre, Co. Leitrim F91 T802.  The next meeting will take place on Sunday Jan. 11, and every second Sunday thereafter.

You can contact Rachel Cave (rrc@iol.ie) for more information.

Once this Worship Group is a bit more firmly established, it will be added to the “Find a Meeting” section of this website.

A new Quaker Worship Group is being formed in County Leitrim – a county where there has never before been a Friends’ meeting. Participants at the first meeting came from Donegal, Fermanagh, Leitrim, Sligo and Belfast.

Future meetings of the North West Worship Group are planned for 3:00pm on the second Sunday of the month at Kinlough Community Centre, Co. Leitrim F91 T802.  The next meeting will take place on Sunday Jan. 11, and every second Sunday thereafter.

You can contact Rachel Cave (rrc@iol.ie) for more information.

Once this Worship Group is a bit more firmly established, it will be added to the “Find a Meeting” section of this website.

The Irish Council of Churches and Irish Inter Church Meeting, along with the Church Leaders, invite you to a creation care conference, to be held at the Canal Court Hotel in Newry during 10.00-15.30 on Saturday 17th January 2026.

Keynote speakers:

Dr Jim McAdam, agricultural and environmental research in NI Government sector and Queen’s University Belfast,

Dr Gail Heffner, author of ‘Reconciliation in a West Michigan Watershed’

Dr Hilary Marlowe, Girton College, Cambridge.

Tickets are £10, to be purchased at: https://letjusticeflow.eventbrite.ie

You can share information about the event using this flyer.

An IYM 2026 web page has now been set to provide information about Ireland Yearly Meeting 2026.

It is featured on the right-hand side of the quakers.ie homepage, making the latest information about IYM 2026 just a click away.