Events and Activities Calendar

Forthcoming Events

Next Local Business Meeting, after Meeting for Worship 2nd November 2025.

Proposed Dates of Sheffield and Balby Area Business Meetings in 2025

The Sunday meetings do not affect Balby (Doncaster) Meetings for Worship which continue to take place in Doncaster before the Area Business Meetings.

Balby (Doncaster) Quakers will be hosting a half day Area Meeting on Sunday May 2026 in the afternoon.

Balby (Doncaster) Quakers will be hosting an Area Meeting on Sunday 16th November 2025.

Activities

Meetings for Worship

We hold Meetings for Worship at our Meeting House every Sunday from 10.30 to 11.30am.  We also hold a Wednesday Meeting for Worship from 1 to 1.30pm.  

All are welcome:  Christian, those of other faiths and from none.

Each Meeting for Worship begins as we sit in a circle in the meeting room, gathering together in a silence in which we open ourselves to the love of God and to that of God in each other.  The responsibility of the meeting belongs to all; anyone may speak when he or she feels inspired to do so.  When prompted by the spirit, this enriches the gathered worship of the meeting.  Sometimes a meeting will pass in total silence.

When those attending bring children, we are usually able to offer a parallel children's meeting, the children joining the main meeting for the last ten minutes.  We may occasionally hold an 'All Ages Meeting', which includes children's activities and music.

Every meeting ends with a handshake followed by a short period of 'Afterword', notices and tea/coffee refreshments.

'Afterword' is a time where thoughts or concerns are shared, which have not quite made it to 'ministry'.

Worship on the first Sunday of each second month is followed by the Local Business Meeting in which local Quaker business matters are considered and discerned.

Worship on the third Sunday of the month is followed by a shared lunch to which all attending are welcome.

Action on Quaker social concerns

We attempt to take forward our Quaker social concerns:

• on an individual basis
• through talks, discussions, and attending plays, concerts and other events
• through links with central Quaker work and other Quaker organisations
• through Doncaster Interfaith
• through the use of our Meeting House
• by encouraging all users of the Meeting House to adopt principles of environmental sustainability.

Other activities

Annual weekend/week at Barmoor.  Balby Friends rent a Quaker property at Barmoor at the foot of the North York Moors for an annual Spring weekend, sharing food, friendship, walks and a visit to Kirkbymoorside Quaker Meeting.