Meeting for Worship
Sundays from 11.00 – 12.00 and Wednesdays from 18.15 – 19.00,
and on the first Tuesday of each month from 13.00 – 13.30.
Anyone can attend our Meetings for Worship, and we welcome newcomers.
On Sundays the meeting house is open for worship in person from 11:00 – 12:00.
Meetings for worship on Sundays continue to take place every week both on Zoom and in-person at the meeting house. We are currently offering every other meeting as “blended”, using the technology in the meeting room. These “blended meetings” take place on the second and fourth Sunday of the month, whilst on the first, third and fifth Sunday the meetings are not linked together and run in parallel. To join online, scroll down to find the Zoom link.
On Wednesdays the meeting house is open for worship in person from 6:15 – 7:00pm.
Meetings for worship on Wednesdays also take place both on Zoom and in-person at the meeting house. All of these meetings are “blended meetings” so that Friends online can worship together with Friends in the meeting room.
On the first Tuesday of the month the meeting house is open for worship in person from 13:00 – 13:30pm.
Meetings for worship on Tuesdays take place in the Library, in-person only, with no technology in the room.
To see more about our online Meetings for Worship, click here.
To join our Sunday and Wednesday meetings online, please click the Zoom icon to log in:
Important Notices
Police action at Westminster Meeting House – May 2025 update
On 27 March, more than 20 police forcibly entered Westminster Quaker Meeting House, using Section 17 (1)(b) PACE powers, and breaking the door. They arrested six young people attending a welcome event organised by Youth Demand, who had hired a room. Police entered all rooms, disrupting events including a life drawing class, a therapy session upstairs, and a Quaker planning meeting that had just finished opening worship. Fortuitously, one of our Elders and a Resident Volunteer Friend were present and engaged with the police and reassured hirers.
We have heard that the six young women arrested have not been charged: some must report back to the police in June.
We are grateful for the wide support we have received including messages from Friends around the world, other faiths, and people of no faith. Some mention that they have made donations to help cover the cost of repairing our door. We believe some messages are from serving police officers and have been told of police officers attending worship elsewhere and expressing their shame at the police action. Some of the most poignant messages are from Quakers in the USA who see worrying parallels between our experience and what is happening in their country.Our hirers have expressed their sympathy and outrage at what happened.
Five MPs, including three Quaker MPs, our local MP, and a Green Party MP, joined Meeting for Worship (MfW) the following Wednesday. Many Friends from across London joined a blended MfW the following Sunday. On 06 April, 85 friends attended MfW in the Meeting House, with others online including Friends abroad. Over 300 attended a MfW outside new Scotland Yard on 3 April, and many came back for tea at Westminster after.
So far, the police are justifying their actions and say that they are not required to pay for damage to the door because arrests were made. A meeting is taking place during May.
Many Quakers have written to their local MP or to the Home Secretary or High Commissioners (from Friends in Australia and New Zealand). With Britain Yearly Meeting staff, we have met the Deputy Mayor of London. We hope that the Westminster MP will take up issues around Yearly Meeting’s long-standing concern about shrinking civil space following the restrictive Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 and the Public Order Act 2023.
Westminster Skills Survey
Part of being a member of our community is sharing in the tasks which need to be carried out within the meeting. Nominations Committee is tasked with finding Friends to fill roles, but it really helps if we know where people’s skills and interests lie. Please follow this link to fill out the survey. Thank you
Children’s Meetings
These take place at the meeting house every Sunday from 11:00–12:00, except in August, when there is no separate meeting for children. Children’s meeting is convened by one of our children’s workers, currently Nina or Kevin. The children join the main meeting for the last 5 minutes of worship.
(contact childrens@westminsterquakers.org.uk for details)
To see more about our Children’s Meetings for Worship, click here.
About Westminster Quaker Meeting House
Westminster Quaker Meeting House is primarily a place of Quaker worship. We provide an oasis of calm for contemplation, reflection, meditation, healing and spiritual well-being. Our beautiful Meeting House is home to a varied and dynamic community of spiritual groups, healing practitioners, and people exploring other forms of personal growth. In sharing our simple and spiritful spaces with a wider community we are able to financially support other Meeting Houses across London. We want all who visit this building to leave feeling refreshed, enlivened, peaceful and inspired.
If you want to know more about Quakers generally, see What is Quakerism, and visit www.quaker.org.uk, the website of Britain Yearly Meeting – the national Quaker organisation. The section on Quaker Worship may be particularly helpful if you are new to Quakers.
If you want to know more about other Quaker Meetings in London visit www.londonquakers.org.uk.