Quakers in Enfield and beyond
Winchmore Hill Quaker Meeting is one of around 500 Quaker groups across the country.  Most of us live in Enfield and we have links to meetings across North London.  We seek to be a friendly and open spiritual community, which accepts everyone.  Like every Quaker community we accept a variety of views and backgrounds.   Most Quakers today were not brought up as Quakers but found it in later life, so we remember what it is like to be a newcomer.

What is Quaker worship like?
The centre of the Quaker meeting is our silent meeting for worship.  Without any special leaders, we sit and seek a stillness together.  Hard to describe, we enter into communion with each other, the world, and with the divine presence.  Sometimes out of this silent unity comes a message – someone may speak, read, pray or even sing.   But there is no formal structure, the spirit guides us.

What do Quakers believe and do?
Quakers have no statement of belief which everyone must agree, we have a broad range of views about God and everything else, but we experience our unity in our worship and our life together.  An anthology of British Quaker experience (Quaker Faith and Practice) is revised every generation, you can buy or borrow a copy or read it online.

Quakers believe that the whole of life is sacred.  We live out our faith in strong concerns for peace, social justice, and the future of the earth. 

Quakers renounce war and the preparation for war – we recognise ‘that of God’ in everyone.  We try to live according to testimonies of peace, equality, simplicity and truth.

Quaker work in the world
Winchmore Hill Meeting supports a national and international Quaker project helping to rehabilitate child soldiers in Uganda.  This cause was chosen by the meeting because of our concerns for peace and the young.  British Quakers are involved in many excellent projects worldwide to relieve suffering or build reconciliation.  The meeting also supports work with the homeless and many charities, and many individual Quakers are involved in a wide variety of causes.

Quakers in London

 www.londonquakers.org.uk

A new website offering a handy map to find meetings, and news and events for Quakers across London.

Our area

We are linked to Quaker meetings in

Bunhill Fields (City of London),  New Barnet,  Stoke Newington, and Tottenham.