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Making Music in Golders Green

October 21, 2025 / Rebecca Fricker / Comments Off / Sticky

Cancelled: Saturday 6th December 2025 (10-4.30pm) Golders Green Meeting House

Unfortunately we have had to cancel this event as we did not get enough sign ups in time and some of our volunteers were travelling a distance. We hope to run some form of it again next year…..watch this space!

Booking is essential (deadline Sunday 30 November) https://londonlinkgroup.org.uk/events/making-music-in-golders-green/

Please bring something for a shared lunch.

Further details to be shared closer to the time – details of the location of the Meeting House here https://goldersgreen.quakermeeting.org/

Please contact Rebecca Fricker (clerk@londonlinkgroup.org.uk) if you have any queries, and do forward details of this event to anyone you think might be interested.

Buzzing in Brighton

August 19, 2025 / Rebecca Fricker / Comments Off

Friday 26 September 2025 (6pm Victoria Train Station) – Sunday 28 September (afternoon)

While it might officially be Autumn by the end of September – London Link Group are hoping to prolong the summer vibes with a residential trip to Brighton!

Last visited in 2022 – we hope to offer a similar blend of beach, games, and interesting places to visit with spending thoughtful time with Brighton Quaker Meeting, who have kindly agreed to let us sleep on their comfortable Meeting House floors again.

After meeting for pizza close to Victoria Train Station on the Friday evening, we will travel to Brighton on the train together in time to arrive for settling in with Epilogue and hot chocolate.

Those wishing to travel direct to Brighton Quaker Meeting can do so, for 8.30pm. We will spend Saturday exploring the joys Brighton has to offer, and Sunday with Brighton Friends – travelling home together after a shared lunch.

Because of the need to ensure we have adequate volunteers and train tickets etc the deadline for booking is Saturday 20 September.

Please find the booking form here: https://londonlinkgroup.org.uk/buzzing-in-brighton/

The cost is £20 – but no-one is to be excluded so please contact us if you need to discuss this.

Please contact David Holtam (david.holtam@gmail.com) or Rebecca Fricker (clerk@londonlinkgroup.org.uk) if you have any queries, and do forward details of this event to anyone you think might be interested.

Return to Adventure Island….

June 30, 2025 / Rebecca Fricker / Comments Off

On Saturday 28th June a group of 19 Linkers, pre-linkers and adults met up at the Kindertransport statue outside Liverpool Street station, and boarded an early train for Southend.

Three of our number, over in London for June/July, are normally based at Albuquerque Quaker meeting in New Mexico, USA and we enjoyed talking to them about their life there.

We arrived at Adventure Island just as it opened for the day, Southend Pier and the Thames estuary illuminated by glorious sunshine.

We enjoyed the thrills of various rides and attractions, regrouped for a picnic lunch in the Cliff Gardens, supplemented with chips from the many fish and chip outlets, and cooled off in the shade of the amusement arcades.

Towards the end of the afternoon, we met to head back to the station (via the sweet shop!), with one person picking up an electric guitar in a charity shop.

We returned to London on the train, some catching up on naps.

Everyone is looking forward to seeing each other at FSSE Junior Gathering and Senior Conference in August, and then at the next LLG residential to be held on 27-28 September in Brighton!

Return to Adventure Island (Southend) for Linkers and Pre-Linkers on Saturday 28 June 2025

April 30, 2025 / Rebecca Fricker / Comments Off

London Link Group are returning to Adventure Island – a theme park in Southend – and we would love to have you with us.

Information about Adventure Island here: https://adventureisland.co.uk/

With details about accessibility here: https://adventureisland.co.uk/accessibility-policy/

The adventure starts at London Liverpool Street at 9.00am where we will catch the train to Southend Victoria train station (which has step free access) for a day trip to the beach, Adventure Island, and perhaps the pier! We will be back at Liverpool Street at around 6pm.

Please find the booking form here:

https://londonlinkgroup.org.uk/events/london-link-returns-to-adventure-island/

Because of the need to ensure we have adequate volunteers, wristbands and train tickets etc, the deadline for booking is 21 June!

The cost for London Linkers aged 11-18 is £20 – but no-one is to be excluded so please contact us if you aren’t able to cover this.

This year we are also welcoming younger people who are not yet 11, as long as they are accompanied by a parent or adult guardian. We are not able to subsidise these places and estimate the cost will be around £35 per child (£25 wristband and £10.80 train) and £46 per adult (£25 wristband if wanted and £21.60 train) and hope that LMs/AMs will support with costs if any help is needed. Adults – please let us know if you are attending with an under 11, and if you would also like a wristband to go on rides (it is free to enter Adventure Island itself).

Winterval 2025: Quaker or Quacker?

March 8, 2025 / Rebecca Fricker / Comments Off

On 26 January 2025, 20 young people and 4 adult volunteers met for the afternoon at Westminster Quaker Meeting for Winterval 2025.

Proceedings began with silent worship. We then had fun doing a Quaker Quiz, and (in Winterval tradition) made our own pizzas. The best quiz round was “Quaker or Quacker” in which we had to figure out if the person shown on the screen was a Quaker, a birdwatcher, or both (turns out Damon Albarn from Blur and Gorillaz is kind of both).

We finished the afternoon and said our goodbyes, and went home feeling ready to start the week (well, after some of us had got over our eventful journeys on the Underground).

It was really good fun meeting up with Quaker friends and we had been looking forward to seeing each other and catching up. We are looking forward to the residential weekend in Welwyn Garden City in March.

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