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Contents VOL 175 NO 10 3 Thought for the Week: Oversight and eldership Alison Leonard 4 News 5 Leaveners’ final act Harry Albright 6-7 Calais Anne M Jones 8-9 Letters 10-11 Quakers and youth hostels Duncan Simpson 12 Peacemaking in a troubled world Linda Murgatroyd Wilderhope hostel. Manor youth from A view YHA. Photo courtesy of

13 We love conflict! ‘Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, Marian Liebmann, Zélie Gross and Roger Cullen and narrow-mindedness, and many 14 Knowing what to do of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, Stephen Allen charitable views of men and things 15 Thoughts on adoption cannot be acquired by vegetating A Friend in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.’ 16 q-eye: a look at the Quaker world 17 Friends & Meetings Mark Twain

Cover image: A view of Wilderhope Manor youth hostel. The WA Cadbury Trust bought and renovated Wilderhope Manor in Shropshire in 1936 and presented it to the National Trust for use as a youth hostel after John Cadbury had found it being used as a barn and storehouse. Photo: JR P (UGArdener) / flickr CC. See pages 10-11.

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2 the Friend, 10 March 2017 Thought for the Week

Oversight and eldership

was looking around for something to counter my drift towards despair about the present political landscape when a friend, who works at the Bradford School of Peace Studies, sent me a copy of a lecture given last year on the theme of caring. In Iit James Thompson argued for caring to stand at the centre of any argument for social justice.

Caring in our present society, he says, is delivered reluctantly, at the lowest possible cost, by the poor to the desperate. One council even has a stated policy of giving ‘just enough’ care: the minimum – and no more. Then James Thompson quotes Norman Geras, the highly regarded political philosopher of the Holocaust. In his book The Contract of Mutual Indifference Geras documents the climate of fear in 1930s Germany that led ordinary people to ignore the sufferings of their Jewish, homosexual, disabled or Roma neighbours, instead of giving friendship or help. James Thompson offers us, as an alternative, a ‘contract of mutual regard’ – ‘tender relations with others [that are] central to the rationale of many political projects’.

This train of thought led me to the Quaker vision of community. As Ben Pink Dandelion says, the Quaker thing is not an ‘I’ thing, it’s a ‘we’ thing. This, in turn, took me to a fresh consideration of the two major roles in a Quaker Meeting: oversight and eldership.

Oversight encompasses the caring aspects of community, and can be done by all of us, not just those appointed. In times like this, when politicians and news media urge fear and hostility, we can make special efforts to extend that care beyond the Quaker Meeting, around where we live and beyond.

The eldership role, if we step outside the Quaker context, is more subtle. It could involve getting together before a demonstration, with others who are intending to go, to give attention to what might happen there and to rehearse the best way of preventing violence in the course of a march; or arranging Meetings for Worship and Fellowship to support those who are most involved in political activity.

In these febrile times, a conscious effort to lower the temperature and support healing in our communities might be something we can all take part in.

Alison Leonard Hebden Bridge Meeting

the Friend, 10 March 2017 3 News reported by Harry Albright [email protected] Quaker MEP welcomes QUNO briefing paper on refugees new directive and migrants

Green Quaker MEP Molly Scott-Cato has welcomed a new EU The Quaker United Nations directive that addresses the problem of money laundering. Office (QUNO) has launched a The economic and legal committees in the European Parliament new briefing paper for Friends: jointly voted to support the strengthening of the anti-money-laundering Protecting refugees and migrants directive on 28 February. under the New York Declaration: The directive is a piece of European law that requires financial and challenges and opportunities at the legal companies to be transparent about how rich people are moving UN level. their money from country to country. It also includes the proposal for a On 19 September 2016 the UN ‘beneficial ownership register’ – meaning that rich people cannot hide set a new agenda under the ‘New their money in closed trusts so that nobody knows who benefits from York Declaration’ for responding what. to large movements of people Molly Scott-Cato said in a statement: ‘With so much gloom around it’s crossing borders. great to be able to share news of a historic move against tax evasion and The briefing aims to inform financial crimes’. Friends about the Declaration ‘The directive is about clamping down on illegal flows of money and and the developments it initiates global gangsters getting away with murder,’ Molly Scott-Cato explained. for improving global governance ‘Since much of this “dirty money” is cleansed through the London on refugees and migrants. It also property market, I was delighted that a Green proposal to strengthen describes how QUNO is engaging controls on that activity was passed.’ in these opportunities, as well Molly Scott-Cato is Green MEP for the South West of England and as ways that Quakers in Britain Gibraltar and was elected in May 2014. and around the world can link up with, and benefit from, UN-level Disabled Friend takes initiatives. legal action Leaveners memorabilia Esther Leighton, a disabled She has now initiated court Friend living in Cambridge, has proceedings against them. taken legal action against several ‘Like many wheelchair users, businesses in the Mill Road area I have spent years being denied of the city after they repeatedly access to shops, restaurants and ignored requests to install ramps cafes. I’ve been raising these or other facilities to allow her to concerns with businesses on Mill access them. Road for years,’ she explained. The Cambridge Friend has been ‘The most important thing to me raising her concerns informally is an apology, not getting money. with shops and cafes in the area The point is to be able to access since 2010. the shops. The Equality Act requires them ‘Thanks to the changes made by to make reasonable adjustments to those businesses that responded accommodate disabled people. positively, I’m delighted to say She says that for most businesses that I’m now able to get in to the Photo: Harry Albright. the cost of an adjustment is majority of the shops. Posters and programmes minimal. She added: ‘I’ve been encouraged from productions by the Leaveners However, seven businesses have and comforted by the support were among the memorabilia in failed to respond to at least two I’ve received from other disabled a special display presented at the letters from Esther, with another people who are fed up that the emergency annual general meeting one responding unhelpfully. Equality Act is being ignored.’ held in Birmingham (see page 5).

4 the Friend, 10 March 2017 Report

Leaveners’ final act

Harry Albright reports on an emergency general meeting Friends at the EGM. Photo: Harry Albright.

fter forty years, the final curtain has come the meeting minuted: ‘The meeting agrees to lay down on the Leaveners, the Quaker performing down the Leaveners registered charity no. 292499 in arts charity. An emergency general meeting good order and as soon as feasible, passing on any Aheld on 4 March in Birmingham, attended by twenty- remaining funds, for the use of Quaker Life, to Britain three people, made the decision after hearing that the Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends as organisation was no longer financially viable. laid down in the constitution.’ Peter Fishpool, one of the Leaveners trustees, told The meeting heard that there were some activities the meeting that the Joseph Rowntree Charitable that might continue in a different manner, including Trust, which had provided core funding for many the chamber music and choral group, which will years, had changed its priorities and withdrawn its continue under the working name of Quaker Music grant aid from 2016. Efforts to raise funds to cover Network. There was also a suggestion from the Quaker operational costs had not been successful. Arts Network that some work could carry on under Peter said: ‘Although we could get some bits of little its umbrella, and a proposal from one of the founders project money, that is for the overheads of a specific of the Leaveners, Alec Davison, to form a group called project, nobody came in with any grants of any sort The Singing Quakers to promote music and singing big enough that we could cream off enough for our within the Yearly Meeting. The meeting minuted that basic admin and core functioning.’ it had heard these proposals. While there was a hope He added that none of the funders were prepared expressed that some funds could be made available to to cover core funding and so ‘it’s proved impossible to support these proposals before the charity officially have that line of income’. Therefore, the director, José closes, no decision was made, and it was left to the Forrest-Tennant, was made redundant at the end of trustees to look at what was possible as they worked to February. lay the charity down. Peter also said that the Leaveners has a liability to There was also discussion about whether the name the Pensions Trust, which is estimated at £36,000. of the Leaveners would live on with some of this This is because of a shortfall in Pension Trust funds ongoing work. The sense of the meeting was that the that needs to be met by member organisations. Now name should not continue, and it was further minuted: that the Leaveners no longer has any employees ‘The meeting asks the trustees to make a public contributing, that liability has fallen due. He stressed statement when laying down the charity that they also that there was more than enough in the charity’s lay down the name of the Leaveners.’ reserves to meet that obligation. The meeting also agreed that the current four ‘So, we met at the end of January and decided that trustees – clerk Patrick Jones, Ed Blann, Helen Coll the sensible thing was to close down the charity in its and Peter Fishpool – should remain in office for as present format, settle that pensions liability and see long as it takes to complete the work of laying the where that took us. When we’ve settled all our debts, charity down. The meeting concluded with a minute of it says in the constitution that any money that we have thanks. ‘We are grateful for the vision and for all those left over would revert to Britain Yearly Meeting,’ Peter who have worked to realise it over forty years.’ said. After a discussion about the practicalities involved, Harry is member of Leicester Area Meeting.

the Friend, 10 March 2017 5 Witness

Calais Fence surrounding the port of Calais next to the ‘Jungle’. to the ‘Jungle’. the port of Calais next surrounding Fence Wikimedia Commons. Pinault via VOA/Nicolas Photo:

Anne M Jones reflects on Calais and the refugee crisis

t the end of 2015 I went to Calais to offer This year a golden teddy bear with angel’s wings support to the estimated 6,000-8,000 refugees sits behind the solemn statue of General de Gaulle in who were camped out on sand dunes. I the Place d’Armes, and live sheep graze in a tiny pen Asubsequently returned several times, teaching English in front of the gothic Hôtel de Ville, surrounded by to the young people there, such was the overwhelming pine branches interspersed with a Disneyland Goofy need for help. and a reindeer sledge. A hoarse sound system plays French carols and Hollywood songs. A diorama of The ‘Jungle’ camp was razed in October 2016 by a nativity scene has life-size effigies of all the main the French authorities. It was a rapid and callously players, waving their arms in slow motion at tempos at executed event, not helped by the fact that Britain was variance with each other. Again, the stunning sunsets, dragging its administrative feet over accepting children even more crimson in the freezing air – but the nature and young people who had a legal right to come to the of the work in Calais is different because the camp has UK. Meanwhile, the French authorities housed many gone. The gaping space of empty fields sits where the of these children in reception centres (CAOs), pending camp once was. There are plans to turn it into a nature constructive action from the UK, or applications reserve. for asylum in France. However, it became clear after October that many refugees were still living rough in Perfidious Albion and around Calais, some children were running away from the CAOs and help was still needed there. So, I ‘Perfidious Albion’ is the header in the regional returned as soon as Christmas was over. newspaper, La Voix du Nord, in its ‘events of 2016’ section on 30 December. In commenting on the The camp has gone English government’s poor response to admitting lone child migrants it points out how our government Calais is an attractive, conventional small town with its promised to take 1,000 children but stopped at 350. own civic pride. When the camp was razed the local newspaper reported that the local tourist board hoped A strong police presence is notable around the that trade and tourism would now pick up to former railway station. The police are looking out for refugees levels. It is a town where seasonal decorations hold to turn away to somewhere unspecified. These are pride of place, such as giant plastic birds in red, blue young adults hopeful of jumping on to the back of a and green along the sea front in summer, and after lorry (despite at least three reported deaths in the past Christmas, with kitsch Christmas decorations. three months caused by falls onto the road). There are

6 the Friend, 10 March 2017 many who have remained in the area or are returning to the arrangement makes economic sense, but I do Calais, and some who have recently arrived from their wonder at the additional freight costs of this new rag long trudge from war-torn places and are unaware of trade. latest news. They have nowhere to return to. Another group goes to Dunkirk each day, where the These desperate refugees sleep out every night and containers set up by the French authorities for refugees by day they huddle together, stunned by the cold, to live in are already becoming unfit, with large intimidated by the police until a volunteer intercepts. growths of black mould. These volunteers go into each The volunteers come from Care4Calais and also from container, ask the inhabitants to remove their things a sympathetic group attached to the Prefecture. The for a few hours, remove mould from the walls and put work now for volunteers, like me, is about taking hats, up extra damp-proofing panels. Other groups go to gloves, extra trousers, and food to all these migrants, the CAOs and detention centres, where they reported and help with the fare to Dunkirk, where at least there that young people were comfortable and well cared for, is shelter – and to take supplies to the young people in though with few activities such as existed in the ‘Jungle’, CAOs waiting to be granted asylum in France, or those like the language lessons, football matches, and films in rejected who are in detention centres until returning the ‘Kids Café’. back whence they once trekked so hopefully. Each morning I enjoy the two-mile walk along the Care4Calais has two huge warehouses in Sangatte, beach to Sangatte as the sun rose over the Opal Coast, approximately three miles south west of the town. One then a return in glorious sunset. Friendships are made warehouse is for collecting and sorting donations, the as we walk, a motley group united in simply wanting to other for storing everything until the stuff is needed contribute their own drop of compassion in the face of for distribution. the awful desperation for so many people that has been unleashed by wars and their aftermath. In sub-zero temperatures we sorted box after box of clothing: coats, T-shirts, fleeces, underwear, trousers, Auld Lang Syne and socks. We were a cheerful bunch of people – English, Irish and French, young and old – working against a It is not all cold fingers and sad stories as we meet up background of raucous sounds that I understand pass each evening and the week also coincides with New for today’s pop ‘music’. Box after box was then labeled Year’s Eve. Someone suggests we celebrate in a nearby and taken over to the other warehouse for sending out French bar. We are welcomed there and joined in the to the refugees camping out, or in the detention centres dancing to a riotous mixture of French pop, classics and CAOs, and some will go to Greece. from the nineteen-eighties and, inevitably, Abba. The atmosphere is warm and there is no hint of the Like a mantra, over and over I rummage – small, antagonisms reported in the local newspaper. medium, large, women’s, children, warm and not over worn – until I realise I am frozen to the bone in this At French midnight we all embrace, French and sub-zero place and wander over to the tea table, where English, and then at ‘England’s midnight’ we embrace there is an abundance of coffee and mince pies and again and sang ‘Auld Lang Syne’. sweets. In the kitchen area a sunny-faced woman is using her chef skills to concoct a delicious curry lunch Events of 2016 mean that the refugee crisis is not for us all from local vegetables and the mountains of going to disappear – it will, rather, increase. At the rice that have been donated. root of the tragedy is the sale of armaments that have assisted wicked regimes in their brutality against their Friendships own citizens, be it Syria, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia and now Yemen. Sorting through some of the donations, I could imagine someone lovingly gathering up second-hand stuff, even Politicians wring their hands and ordinary people buying new, and carefully packing it up, but other bags make their individual protest, whether it is rag trading had things like flimsy evening dresses or someone’s in a freezing French warehouse or demonstrating dirty underwear or incompetently bagged rice. against sales of armaments. Protest and help must both continue. A mound of unsuitable items is either thrown away or returned to the UK to be bought back through an exchange arrangement with charity shops. Apparently, Anne is a member of Friends House Meeting.

the Friend, 10 March 2017 7 Letters All views expressed are those of the writer and not necessarily those of the Friend

The Leaveners I welcome Holocaust Memorial Day as a Quaker I agree with Penelope Putz (3 March) that the end of and as a human being. I hope Holocaust Memorial the Leaveners is unutterably sad. Day continues indefinitely. It is an event for us all, I was a new Quaker when Jo Farrow invited me to as well as for the many who have died and for those the ‘Equipping for Ministry’ conference in 1991. I who still suffer prejudice. sat next to Alec Davison, founder of the Leaveners, David Fish at the first meal. He invited me to join the Leaveners Coventry Meeting, West Midlands at Bradford for ‘Beyond the Walls’. Wow! Here were people of vision! Fracking The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust cannot I see Quakers are now fretting about fracking (17 sustain £34,000 a year to support the Leaveners. This February). Oh dear! is less than the salary of one job being advertised at We in the affluent parts of the world are using, I Friends House over the last few weeks. Surely the understand, energy per person equivalent to around Leaveners is worth that? five tonnes of oil per annum. If a person used all of Jill Allum his five tonne allocation on driving he would travel Beccles Meeting, Suffolk 80,000 miles, or more than three times around the world, in a year. We each use a lot of energy. The trustees of the Leaveners feel they should ‘quit The five tonne oil equivalent includes: heating, while they are ahead’ and close the charity as required lighting, electricity, travel, vehicle and all other by law. The Extraordinary General Meeting on 4 energy costs needed to maintain our lifestyles, March may discern otherwise. energy to provide food, clothes, consumer goods and I wonder how deep into their pockets Friends who services, holidays, and our energy-hungry medical bemoan the closure are prepared to dig to support the and educational systems. Leaveners? Let’s suppose Quakers would make the gesture Although not part of Yearly Meeeting, and maybe of reducing their total daily energy use by fifty per only wishful thinking, just one of those £38,000 plus cent. We’d have to make painful choices among such jobs advertised at Friends House would go a long way items as electricity consumption and travel. If enough to fill the funding gap! people follow our lead we could forget the need for Edward Creasy fracking. But, realistically, few anywhere would follow Warwick Meeting, Warwickshire our example. As affluence and population rise, global demands Holocaust Memorial Day 2017 for energy will soar. Energy use throughout the world Michael Oppenheim (10 February) writes: ‘perhaps is increasing at a high rate. Quaker noises are not [Israel has] lost the right to receive sympathy [on] going to affect that by any significant margin. Holocaust Memorial Day.’ Fracking is part of the short to medium term way In April 2011 I attended the secular national day forward – as are renewables and nuclear energy. One of Israel (independence day) in Birmingham as a glimmer of hope comes from the possibilty of an representative of Coventry Quaker Meeting. During almost unlimited clean energy supply from nuclear the event the audience heard readings about, and fusion. If that comes on stream then, and only then, remembered, not just the Holocaust of 1939-45 but a can we reduce use of fossil fuels, including the Holocaust against Jewish people in so many centuries products of fracking. both before and after the present era – for example, Peter Hancock the murder and expulsion of the Jewish people from Guernsey Meeting, Channel Islands England by Christians in 1290. I left this meeting so sad and shocked. A call to conscience I think that remembering, witnessing and reflecting In reply to Ann Flood (24 February), I was thinking about the Holocaust 1939-45, every Holocaust of those gathering for the Taxes for Peace Rally on 27 Memorial Day is important for me. I attend Coventry February and hope it was positive. City Council’s annual Holocaust Memorial Day However, there is more than one way of looking at together with many Quakers from Coventry Quaker this subject. My first thought is that this government, Meeting every year I can. and ones before, have been moving away from Coventry’s event always includes other witnesses income tax to other ways of taxing us. This is a duty to persecution. This year there were speakers from on things like petrol, cigarettes and alcohol. It may be Israel, Syria and Somalia and two speakers talking easy to withhold paying tax in this case because you about their work for human rights in Coventry. just stop buying things that raise revenue in this way.

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Secondly, lots of people would choose other things Sing out to stop paying for with their tax. In today’s climate David Harries is right about the power of music (17 of selfishness some would choose not to pay for February). Zoltán Kodály’s music education mission unemployment benefit or the NHS, for instance. So restored Hungary’s cultural identity and spiritual roots I can see why the Treasury does not want to open after a period of cultural domination. He chose singing that door. The MPs in charge have the final word on as the medium for this pioneering programme: the where our taxes go. voice is free, common to all, yet uniquely expresses our There is a case for putting energy into getting the identity. Singing connects us to our ‘musical mother population to vote, particularly younger people, many tongue’ – our shared heritage of lullaby, folksong, and of whom still seem unable to bring themselves to the countless songs of work, worship, celebration and voting booth (is it lack of choice?). lament. I must, also, admit a great admiration for any Singing for me has been a means of self-expression Friend who puts themselves forward to become an for as long as I remember. I learned songs through MP. It is not only a dangerous place to be these days nursery, school and church, Brownies and Guides, but also a position under constant attack from the the Beatles and Joan Baez. I have been a choral singer media. They could hold power to choose where our all my adult life. As a music teacher I was drawn to tax money is spent, if there were enough of them! Kodály’s practical, creative and holistic methodology. Barbara Mark Missing music in Quaker worship, about twenty- Ludlow Meeting, Shropshire five years ago I started monthly singing after Meeting. Anything from two to twenty Friends raise Respecting children hearts and voices, singing from Sing in the Spirit, Priscilla Alderson’s article ‘Respecting children’ (24 an eclectic anthology of traditional hymns, Taizé February) is a welcome reminder of the respect with chants, peace songs, rounds, and songs by well-known which Quakers have always tried to treat children – musicians – Pete Seeger, Donald Swann and Sydney and of how they are often treated with disrespect in Carter. Occasionally we perform in fundraising and wider society. celebration events, but our raison d’etre is just to sing. She writes: ‘Children and youths are the last and Kodály believed that music is food for the soul, only social groups who can be vilified with impunity reaching parts of our being that nothing else when “childish”, “infantile” and “babyish” are insults, touches. The following well-known quote remains whereas “adult” and “grown-up” are compliments.’ an inspiration to many of us: ‘We must look forward I see the discrimination and disrespect revealed by to the time when all people in all lands are brought such language as equivalent to the sexism and racism together through singing, and when there is a that was commonplace in the not-too-distant past, universal harmony.’ attitudes linked to domestic and racist violence. Celia Waterhouse With children’s sensitivity to their surroundings, Cambridge Jesus Lane Meeting they can easily be shamed and feel alienated by such Member of the British Kodály Academy attitudes. These are hostile conditions that crush self- worth and allow mental health problems to develop which can reoccur in various guises throughout their In essentials unity, lives. in non-essentials liberty, William Charles Braithwaite, in Quaker faith & practice 23.05, wrote: ‘Evils which have struck their in all things charity. roots deep in the fabric of human society are often accepted, even by the best minds, as part of the providential ordering of life. They lurk unsuspected The Friend welcomes your views. in the system of things until men of keen vision and heroic heart drag them into the light, or until their Do keep letters short (maximum 250 words). insolent power visibly threatens human welfare.’ I see disrespect for children and childhood as one Please include your full postal address, even such evil, its ‘insolent power’ threatening the welfare when sending emails, and specify whether you wish for your postal or email address or Meeting of children and the adults they will become. name to be used with your name. Let’s drag this evil into the light so that children can feel loved and valued! Letters are published at the editor’s discretion Wendy Pattinson and may be edited. Lancashire Central and North Area Meeting

the Friend, 10 March 2017 9 Feature

Quakers and youth hostels

Duncan Simpson, in the first of a two part series, considers the influence of Quakers on the youth hostel movement in Britain

he practical nature of youth hostel work and the Holidays Association in the early 1890s whilst he was simplicity of youth hostels both reflect values and still a congregational minister in Colne in Lancashire. concerns associated with Friends and were part of In his autobiography, Adventures in Holidaymaking, Tthe reason so many were attracted to the movement in he wrote that he wanted to encourage a better kind of its early days. holiday for his congregation, holidays that did not lead Those involved hoped that by bringing together ‘to thoughtless spending of money, the inane type of people from different communities and backgrounds, amusement and unhealthy overcrowding in lodging youth hostels would contribute to world peace. The lack houses… [that] made for vitiated conceptions of life and of a creed or a single leader for youth hostels and their conduct and produced permanent effects on character.’ robust democracy, taking account of all views, shows the Forty years later, Leonard encouraged the general influence of Quakers like TA Leonard, ‘Jack’ Catchpool, desire for places to stay in the countryside, along the John Cadbury and many others who took part in lines of youth hostels in Germany, into creating a creating youth hostels from 1929 onwards. youth hostel movement in Britain. He had great hopes The absence of a creed was a cornerstone of youth for youth hostels as an organisation offering simple hostels. Their charitable object showed that they were accommodation for working class men and women. open to everyone. Though they aimed to introduce young people to the countryside, youth hostels opened Simplicity in towns and cities. They welcomed people of all ages. They held no religious affiliation, unlike other young When the national Youth Hostels Associate (YHA) people’s organisations, like the YMCA and YWCA. Each looked for a first president they chose George Macaulay youth hostel displayed the times and places of all the Trevelyan rather than TA Leonard. They turned to the local religious services available. Cambridge professor, historian and author of bestselling They had no single leader, unlike the Scouts and the history books. GM Trevelyan was not a Quaker but Boys Brigade. They were resolutely democratic and their he numbered amongst his friends Philip Noel-Baker. members wore no uniform. They followed no single set During the first world war he had served in Italy as of beliefs and attracted men and women from diverse commander of a Red Cross Brigade with Philip Noel- backgrounds. Baker and others from the Friends Ambulance Unit. The influence of Quakers can be seen most clearly GM Trevelyan brought to youth hostels a pared- in the welcome youth hostels offered to all and the back simplicity. He praised the spartan nature of early fellowship youth hostel members aimed to create youth hostels. His own life was spartan. His home was amongst themselves. described as lacking in comfort. He and his brother, Thomas Arthur Leonard, often known as the father Charles Trevelyan, gave generous financial help and they of social tourism, among others inspired youth hostels. are particularly associated with the youth hostels at Once He came to the Religious Society of Friends in 1920. The Brewed in Northumberland and Black Sail in Cumbria. absence of a rigid creed and the freedom for intellectual For GM Trevelyan, youth hostels were not ‘abodes and religious thought attracted him. Leonard was of luxury’. He told The Times newspaper in 1933 that president of the first regional group, which began youth their cheap and spartan fare had drawn out the right hostels on Merseyside, and then a vice-president of the type of young men and women who took their holidays national association. He had founded the Cooperative ‘strenuously and joyously, without slacking or rioting…’

10 the Friend, 10 March 2017 The Malham youth hostel L: ‘Jack’ Catchpool. R: Richard Schirrmann. designed by John Dower. Photos courtesy of YHA. Photos courtesy of

A practical idea indulge what he called his ‘hobby horses’. George Haynes said that T Corder Catchpool, Jack’s Youth hostels were always practical. Ideas and influences brother, had always been ‘an active and much respected were only important in the way they manifested member of the Society of Friends. His life is a striking themselves in the buildings that became youth hostels. example of the influence exercised by that remarkable Youth hostel work was practical. John Dower, who was community…’ married to GM Trevelyan’s niece Pauline, designed youth Corder Catchpool was born in 1890 and educated at hostels like the one at Malham in Yorkshire. He and his Sidcot, a Quaker school in North Somerset. He spent wife were Quakers. His brother, Arthur, was chairman of four years at Woodbrooke College in Birmingham, where the regional youth hostel group in Yorkshire and later a he took a social studies course and was secretary of the chairman of YHA nationally. Friends Social Service Union. Soon after the outbreak of John Dower influenced the development not only of war in 1914 he joined the Friends Ambulance Unit. youth hostels but also of the countryside and national After the introduction of conscription in 1916 he parks. He drafted the report in 1945 that led to the refused to serve in the army but he, unlike many others, creation of national parks. The first national park opened including his brother, was exempted from military in 1951. Following his untimely death in 1947 Pauline service. continued to play a leading role in youth hostels, and He joined the Friends War Victims Relief Committee their son Michael continues the family involvement with mission to Russia. After three years in Russia, Armenia, youth hostels to the present day. and the Far East he returned to Britain via Palestine in Another Quaker, E St John Catchpool, better known 1919. He had added a strong international conviction to as ‘Jack’ or ‘Catch’, was the first secretary of the Youth his pacifism and dedication to social service. Hostels Association. George Haynes, director of the National Council Peace of Social Services, forerunner of today’s National Council of Voluntary Services, writing in Catchpool’s It would be wrong to say that youth hostels were pacifist. autobiography, Candles in the Darkness, called him ‘one Some youth hostel members were in the military. Some of the leaders who took part in the early planning of the took an active part in war. Others did not. But many movement and as its first secretary, its chief architect. He believed that youth hostels could help create conditions was the mainspring in its rapid development during the for peace. 1930s and was untiring in his efforts to expand the work Richard Schirrmann, the German founder of youth and enlist support for it.’ hostels, witnessed men from opposing sides in the first Jack Catchpool followed a course of active social world war exchanging gifts on the Western Front. He service. He was sub-warden at Toynbee Hall, the afterwards spoke of his hopes that youth hostels might universities’ settlement in the East End of London, contribute to peace. By bringing young people from under JJ Mallon. He was active in boys’ and neighbours’ different countries together in youth hostels, where they clubs. He campaigned for space where children could could meet and understand each other, war in the future play safely off the streets – work that led him to join the might be avoided. London County Council’s education committee. In 1930 his appointment as the first national secretary Duncan is author of Open to All: How youth hostels of the Youth Hostels Association gave him the chance to changed the world.

the Friend, 10 March 2017 11 Peace Peacemaking in a troubled world

Linda Murgatroyd reflects on fear, tolerance and Adam Curle

t this time, when tensions within and between engagement. He saw all our lives as interrelated, and many countries and communities in the loved the Hindu idea of ‘Indra’s net’, in which there is a Western world have been rising, we need to bead (representing a life) at each intersection, and each Aremain grounded in that ‘Spirit which… delights to do bead reflects the others. no evil’, to quote James Nayler, and should not allow He recognised that the nature of conflicts has ourselves to become contaminated by hatred and fear. changed in recent years, and that mediation between Some of us may query the value of gestures such national leaders alone was not sufficient. Instead, as the recent ‘women’s marches’ around the world, it has become increasingly important to develop protesting against Donald Trump’s attitudes and policy the peacebuilding capacity of local communities statements, but they were a wonderful display of around the globe. In the current context of worsening creative initiative, affirming values of tolerance, mutual relationships around the world, each of us may need respect, friendship, community solidarity and good to hone our skills and consider what we can do. Adam humour, as attested by the plethora of imaginative, Curle’s advice to his daughters and granddaughters, homemade placards and colourful costumes (including written a decade or so ago, was included in an many pink woolly hats). unpublished memoir and is quoted in a new book on The atmosphere of the London demonstration was him by Tom Woodhouse and John Paul Lederach. His festive and good-humoured, despite the worrying words seem particularly apt for today: events and challenges that provoked the rally. All over the place people were smiling, encountering not only The fate of the world doesn’t depend on you. It strangers in the crowd but also meeting neighbours, would be wrong and arrogant to think it did, and to colleagues, old friends and family members – many by do so might make you ill: I know this from my own chance and some by appointment. It revived people’s experience. On the other hand it would be equally energies, bridged generational and community gaps, wrong to think that you can contribute nothing to encouraging us to further action to counter the politics the peace and happiness of the world. The great of fear and division, resist damaging reforms, and be relationships – between nations, communities, hopeful for the future. cultures, and religions – are built on a foundation of Rallies alone are not going to change things, but millions of small relations between people, between such activities are important for the participants as you and me, for example. well as making public statements. The late Adam Anything we can do to bring harmony, to Curle, a peacemaker and educator, who worked with comfort, to give hope, to encourage another person people of different cultures and on many continents, contributes to the world’s reservoir of love. No would have approved. Adam was the founding one can or need to do anything else. But one day professor at the School of Peace Studies at Bradford you may see, and then take the opportunity to do, University, and his work drew on a wide range of something more. But whatever you do, nothing social science disciplines as well as his personal could be better than to be, to nourish your good research, life experience and faith. heart and open it to others. A Quaker for many years, in later life he added a deepening Buddhist practice. Spending time Linda is from Kingston & Wandsworth Area Meeting. envisaging the perspectives of others preceded his engagements in mediation. His life and teaching was Further information: Adam Curle: Radical Peacemaker devoted to building peaceful relationships and he by Tom Woodhouse and John Paul Lederach is published saw this as requiring inner work as well as outward by Hawthorn Press at £30. ISBN: 9781907359798.

12 the Friend, 10 March 2017 Quaker life

We love conflict!

Marian Liebmann, Zélie Gross and Roger Cullen say that division is not necessarily divisive

joint initiative between Quaker Life, the people withdrawing or leaving the Meeting. Crucial recording clerk’s office, the Woodbrooke stages seemed to be when things became personal, or Quaker Study Centre and the Living with when other issues and people got dragged in and the AConflict project brought together twelve people for Meeting polarised into different camps. Then extra help two days at Woodbrooke for a ‘Conflict Consultation’. from outside the Meeting may be needed. We came with a variety of experiences in conflict Quakers already have many processes that can resolution: the Alternatives to Violence Project, help with conflict: the Quaker business method, Community Mediation, Family Mediation, Quaker eldership and oversight, threshing meetings, Conflict Resolution Advisory Groups, Conflict in meetings for clearness, worship sharing, and creative Meetings and more. Our brief was to: listening. These are listed in the excellent Eldership and Oversight handbook Conflict in Meetings. We • Find ways of accepting and working positively identified issues that needed extra work: Power and with conflict in our Meetings and the Quaker Processes, Confidentiality and openness, Personalising community generally. and Polarising, Flag-waving and Whistleblowing. We • Identify the support needed by Quakers. also identified a need for ‘Meetings for Listening’, to • Consider who should provide this support and help Meetings to be clearer about their issues. how Quakers can find and access it. A challenging area was long-held grievances and personal hurts. We shared experiences of We were clear from the outset that conflict in itself reconciliation and what we needed to get there is not necessarily harmful – it is part of life and can be – willingness to resolve, commitment, courage, positive. It is the escalation into destructive conflict opportunity, respect for the other person, listening that can damage relationships in a meeting, and for support, information, advice, possibly a third person which we need appropriate tools and processes. or a facilitator. We need to develop more resources for After introducing ourselves, we did an exercise taken such situations. from the new Bridgebuilders manual for working with We identified action points, such as updating church conflict, Growing Bridgebuilders. existing resources, and working on areas needing more We were asked to line up across the room, with ‘open attention. Woodbrooke and Quaker Life will both expression of feelings’ at one end, and ‘no expression focus on these. We reflected on the way Quakers avoid of feelings’ at the other. Members of rumbustious addressing conflict. Is it because we resist change? households of children or shouting parents contrasted Because we fear our differences are incompatible? with quiet families where everything was ‘under Because it feels safer to sweep things under the carpet? wraps’. We felt we had learnt to express our feelings We challenged these observations by reminding more appropriately through experiences of marriage, ourselves that we should expect conflict – it shows we friendships, work and Quaker Meetings. are alive and it can be a tool of growth. We listed possible topics for exploration, including theological conflicts, money and property dilemmas, Marian is a member of Redland Meeting and a a dealing with hurts, and conflicts between Local and neighbour mediator with Bristol Mediation. Zélie is a Area Meetings. From this we focused on two main member of South Wales Area Meeting and author of areas: root causes and patterns of conflict. The latter led With a tender hand: A resource book for eldership to a discussion of the stages of escalation of a conflict, and oversight. Roger is from Oxford & Swindon Area from denial to aggressive argument, shouting and Meeting and is currently working as a family mediator.

the Friend, 10 March 2017 13 Reflection

Knowing what to do

Stephen Allen reflects on the Quaker Business Method

n my view, one of the greatest strengths of our need of inspiration if they are to show substantial Quaker way is how our processes, in particular signs of engaging with the pressing realities of socio- our business method, can embrace our individual environmental unsustainability. Consequently, it seems I‘unknowing’ about being in a world. By unknowing, to be a good moment to try to bring some attention in this instance, I am connecting with the definition to the alternative ways of working together that are proposed by the educational philosopher Michalinos encapsulated by our business method, which has Zembylas: a realisation of inadequacy in terms largely been ignored in studies of organisations and of anything approaching full and comprehensive management. However, although spirituality in business understanding. Let me try to explain something about and management writing has become a bit more en how I came to this idea. vogue, it is a topic that can get some prickly reactions My family and I attended our first Quaker Meeting from academics reviewing for journals, who are about four years ago; so, in relation to many Friends, expecting certain views of rationality and reason. Also, our experiences of seeking to be Quaker are very there is some necessary scepticism as some writers put modest. During this period we have moved with spirituality into the service of accumulating capital. working opportunities, first attending Meeting in It took about two years, from starting to research, to Poole (Dorset), then Lancaster (Lancashire) and now publishing it in a ‘good’ management journal, which Beverley (Yorkshire). is pretty quick by journal publishing standards. The We were prompted to explore Quakerism from debates that my writing comes into conversation with becoming excited about a nondogmatic spirituality are around a concept called ‘reflexive practice’. The that identified itself as a community of people taking general idea is that because our knowing about the personal and collective action for socio-environmental world is socially, culturally, historically and physically sustainability. Alongside developing an understanding situated, from our ‘location’ we inevitably develop of these concerns and commitments among Friends, limited perspectives on being in a world. However, if I have become interested in making sense of the we take on board this idea of never comprehensively alternative, nonhierarchical ways of organising that knowing, it can mean we become anxious from the Quakers have developed over the past 350 years. potential disorientation and disruption to possibilities I have found Quaker organising to be most of knowing what to do. clearly expressed through our business method and, My argument is that by being aware of our consequently, this aspect of Quakerism has become individual limits the ways we perform our business a key focus of my spiritual and intellectual interest. method can produce a more intelligent, spiritually I use the word intellectual because as an academic engaged, respectful and equitable ‘knowing’. Hence, working in a business school I try and bring my the business method helps to offer some images of the whole self to work by endeavouring to express my life possibilities for working together. interests through my research. Given this, I attempt to When I look at the scale of the challenges we face, approach the potential academic treadmill associated it very much feels like the time has come for society with ‘publishing or perishing’ by writing about what to take greater inspiration from our Society. I am just appear worthwhile purposes. I endeavour to focus my worried that it will take too long for people to notice. publications on topics that can ricochet, hopefully, in interesting ways. Stephen is from Beverley Meeting. I see that the dominant ways our societies, economies and commerce go about organising are in urgent Further information: http://bit.ly/LearningFromFriends

14 the Friend, 10 March 2017 Faith in action

Thoughts on adoption

A Friend responds to ‘Dave’s story’

read ‘Dave’s Story’ (10 February), of a Friend’s experience of adopting children, with great interest, as much of it echoed my own experience with my adopted son: the sense of loss, the visits to the cranial osteopath, the infectious laugh, the rages, the pit of misery, the Ipoor GCSE results, the moving from job to unsatisfactory job and the slide into cannabis. And worse? I don’t know. My son was prone to mood swings: he would be delightfully happy, laughing, cooperative and cheerful – then suddenly enter a pit of despair. It was as if a black cloud descended and enveloped him in unhappiness, grumpiness and ‘bad’ behaviour. As he grew older and bigger he sometimes scared me, as his rages were sometimes almost uncontrollable. When he was fourteen we sent him to a Quaker boarding school and it was ‘the best thing you ever did Mum,’ he said. And it was – thanks to a generous grant from Friends. Within the first term he’d won a prize. Later, he was diagnosed with a mild neurological condition, which explained his hyperactivity. His GCSE results were never going to be great, but the school helped him with his self- confidence and self-esteem. He was frequently in trouble, but they coped, for which I am eternally grateful. While at that school he learnt skills that he was later able to utilise in a highly enjoyable and very worthwhile job (in special education), which he held down for some years and where he was respected and valued. It was here that he met the lovely young woman who has become his wife. They now have two gorgeous daughters and to see him with his girls is one of the great joys of my life. He is bringing them up so well: lots of love and hugs and kisses, along with appropriate discipline when necessary. I don’t know how old ‘Dave’ is, but my son is now just over forty. I sincerely hope ‘Dave’s’ story ends well. Photo: Sorensiim / flickr CC. Photo: Sorensiim / flickr

the Friend, 10 March 2017 15 a look at the Quaker world [email protected]

Vast Ocean of Light

Vast Ocean of light, whose rayes surround The Universe, who know’st nor ebb, nor shore, Who lend’st the Sun his sparkling drop, to store With overflowing beams Heav’n, ayer, ground, Whose depths beneath the Centre none can sound, Whose heights ‘bove heav’n, and thoughts so lofty soar, Whose breadth no feet, no lines, no chains, no eyes survey, Whose length no thoughts can reach, no worlds can bound, What cloud can mask thy face? where can thy ray Find an Eclipse? what night can hide Eternal Day?

Our Seas (a drop of thine) with arms dispread Through all the earth make drunk the thirsty plains; Our Sun (a spark of thine) dark shadows drains, Guilds all the world, paints earth, revives the dead; Seas (through earth pipes distill’d) in Cisterns shed, And power their liver springs in river veins. The Sun peeps through jet clouds, and when his face, and gleams Are maskt, his eyes their light through ayers spread; Shall dullard earth bury life-giving streams? Earths foggs impound heav’ns light? hell quench heav’n-kindling beams?

How miss I then? in bed I sought by night, But found not him in rest, nor rest without him. I sought in towns, in broadest streets I sought him, But found not him where all are lost: dull sight Thou canst not see him in himself: his light Is maskt in light: brightness his cloud about him. Where, when, how he’l be found, there, then, thus seek thy love: Thy Lamb in flocks, thy Food with appetite, Thy Rest on resting dayes, thy Turtle Dove Seek on his cross: there, then, thus Love stands nail’d with love.

Phineas Fletcher

Cardiff Friend David B Lawrence has alerted Eye to this fascinating poem, written in 1633, that predates by twenty years the emergence of a group of seekers who were to become the Religious Society of Friends. Its interest, for Friends, lies in its title, as Quakers have cherished the phrase used for centuries. Phineas Fletcher, the author, was born in Cranbrook in Kent in 1582 and died in 1650. He wrote throughout his life, leaving a large body of literature for posterity, though he is little known today. His collected works include three volumes of religious prose, an epic, a drama, several medium- length verse narratives, pastoral eclogues, verse epistles, hymns, psalms, translations, various songs, occasional pieces, lyrics and devotional poems.

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