Community Use

Community Use

Bakewell Friends’ Meeting House is the home of the Bakewell Quaker Meeting, and we welcome all to our historic building.

With a choice of three rooms of varying size it is a versatile and convenient meeting place near the centre of Bakewell. Local societies, yoga, drama, art and learning groups, voluntary bodies and private clients are among the regular users.

We invite enquiries for appropriate use of any part of the building in any part of the day, except Sunday morning when it is used for Quaker Meeting for Worship, at which all are welcome

Quaker Talks

25th March @ 7:30pm Quaker talk: This I knew experimentally…Charles Keeling and the measurement of climate change.

Quakers have a long-standing commitment to living sustainably, and many see themselves as ‘climate warriors’. There is also a long tradition that our actions should be based on, and tested by, our lived experience. But most of us don’t have any direct means of experiencing the causes of climate change. I hope to provide some awareness of what is involved.

This talk will describe some of the fundamental measures of climate change, and how these measurements have been carried out. It’s a story of remote places, luck and technical genius, and individual persistence and bloody-mindedness in the face of bureaucratic obstacles.