Brighton Friends' Meeting House

News & Events

Holocaust Memorial Day 27 January 2022.

Posted: 
23 Jan 2022

This year’s theme is Light in the Darkness and we are all encouraged to light a candle and place it in a window at 8.00pm on Thursday 27 January to honour all those who died and those who survived, and to express our commitment to a world without genocide. That evening a candle will be lit in a window at the Meeting House.

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Can our anger, grief and love push us forward to renewed action?

Posted: 
5 Oct 2021

Annual meeting of British Quakers - 

This year’s annual meeting of Quakers in Britain considered the subject “For our comfort and discomfort – living equality and truth in a time of crisis”.  

Three important themes emerged:

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Our Children's Meeting has been learning about refugees.

Posted: 
16 Aug 2021

The children of Brighton Quaker Meeting have made an on-line banner about refugees.

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Want to save your right to protest?

Posted: 
25 Jun 2021

The next few weeks are crucial in persuading MPs to challenge the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. Quakers in Britain will be lobbying on this at a national level, but we need your help to persuade your local MP to speak out against the bill.

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Meet some local Quakers

Pat Norman - involved in Brighton Quaker Meeting House for over 60 years

A home-grown Brighton Quaker Meeting video, sharing our experiences of being a Quaker in the 21st Century.

The spiritual journey of a young Quaker

Jessica Kellgren-Fozard asks 'What is Quakerism?'

Hiring Rooms

For those who are looking to hire rooms, we can usually offer two large rooms on the ground floor, and 4 smaller upstairs rooms. There is a café/servery area, a catering standard kitchen, and the front garden can also be hired. Following the closure of the building during the recent lockdown, we are now accepting bookings in line with government guidlelines, and including the following adaptations: 

  •  We have redesigned the layout of the rooms to facilitate social distancing
  • We have hygiene and mask wearing protocols.
  •  We have installed high quality audio-visual equipment with large screens to enable hirers to run meetings blending attendees physically in our building with others at home using Zoom-type services
  • We are exploring and are receptive to any new ideas for making use of our spaces and resources.

Quakers in Brighton

Quakerism is a way of life rooted in a transforming experience of the Divine. From this we seek to live out our principles of truth, peace, simplicity and equality. Our Meeting offers a place of welcome, encounter and spiritual exploration. Our testimonies encourage us to work for a more just, peaceful and sustainable world. It's not always easy to live this way, but as Quakers we try to encourage each other to keep trying.

We hold regular meetings for worship and all are very welcome to attend. Our worship is the time spent with others when we attend quietly to the divine spark within. Others may call this a listening to the inner voice or being open to the inner light.