• QUAKER LINKS
• 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.
There are two very interesting Markets nearby - Spitalfields, which is large, rambling and indoors, with a variety of food. And Brick Lane, which operates on Sunday mornings in an area historically inhabited by waves of immigrants, the most recent being from Bangladesh. There is some wonderful food to be had here - at very reasonable prices. See the London Markets website.
The Geffrye Museum has a display of 400 years of interiors. Also a brand new wing and a pleasant, if a bit pricey, new restaurant - where you can have afternoon tea.
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. In Hoxton Square there is also the new Lux Cinema.
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
World Development Movement. Campaigning to win justice for the world's poorest people.
Black Information Link - The 1990 Trust. Anti-Racism.
Intermediate Technology Development Group. Employment for resource-poor people in developing countries
Quakers United Nations Office (QUNO) particularly their peace work.
People First. The rights of people with learning disabilities - particularly self-advocacy.
Friends Office on National Legislation (FONL) - legislation concerns of Quakers in the USA.
Conscience - organisation working against the arms trade
Broadening education - particularly the sixth form curriculum
Developing public understanding of Science. See also the sites for The Royal Institution and The British Association Promoting Science and technology.
• ALSO, FOR INTEREST, SEE...
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.
And finally...Falls Meeting is where Lisa married Paul!
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.
Quaker Social Action - a variety of work with the disadvantaged in the East End of London.
...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.