Horsham Quaker meeting is an active friendly community with on average 14-18 people attending Sunday Worship & 6-8 on Wednesdays.
This page is designed specifically for our meeting community: members, attenders and visitors. As well as specific details of Meeting roles, business news and mailings, this page also gives a flavour of our meeting life with details of recent, current & upcoming projects, trips, events and news. There are also details of our Young Peoples meeting and activities.
Roles: 2026
Co-clerks: Jacinta White and Maggie Weir-Wilson
Pastoral Care: Marilyn Quail and Maggie Weir-Wilson
Treasurer: Peter Shepherd
Convenor of Finance and Premises Committee: Jacinta White
Horsham Quaker Spiritual Enquiry Meetings 2026
After the period of the pandemic when little happened at the Meeting House apart from Zoom Meetings for Worship it was with some relief and anticipation that we started a Spiritual Enquiry Group. The aim of this informal gathering was to hear about each other’s diverse experiences and explore different spiritual insights each of us may have. We had not done this in recent years and so began by basing our discussions on a Kindlers booklet called ‘Answering that of God’ which we took chapter by chapter to discuss in each monthly session. The group ran from 21st January, 2023, to 15th July, 2023, seven sessions covering the seven chapters.
There were about 10 of us to begin with at each session, both members and attenders, some of them new. The Kindlers booklet we chose was written by Peter Parr and as a long-standing Quaker he was commenting on his understanding of Who we Are, and then some of the Quaker Testimonies of Truth, Equality, Simplicity, Peace, then Letting your Life Speak, and finally Remembering. Each chapter ended by giving suggestions for reflection. We certainly found enough to comment on and discuss.
The group ran on a Saturday morning, which suited most people but not everyone. However, we have decided to continue with our Spiritual Enquiry Group in the autumn and there has been a call from some of our members to look more deeply at what Quakers stand for, their ways of doing things and why. This seems very worthwhile and prescient given our new attenders, and even for those that have been coming for some while.