Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, Birmingham – April 1st to 3rd
As promised, we are updating you on our annual conference in 2022.
We are working closely with Woodbrooke to plan how we should proceed, with all the uncertainty surrounding Covid. In summary we are hoping to run the conference physically at Woodbrooke blended with participants joining using Zoom. For full details see here
We urge you to apply early for Woodbrooke, to guarantee your place in April and indeed to guarantee that the conference takes place at all. The application form is available here
Participants attending Woodbrooke in person will be protected by Woodbooke’s safety precautions necessary to protect us from infection. These include the wearing of face coverings, general hygiene, room capacity to allow social distancing, etc. Part of this would be keeping our QUG conference as a ‘bubble’ if there are other groups there at the same time. All the details can be found at https://thewoodbrookecentre.co.uk/our-safety-charter/.
Unless Woodbrooke has to close its doors to us because of government regulations we will be catering for both groups of people in our blended conference next April and we will do our best to maximise the experience for all. We will charge the usual conference fee for those going to Woodbrooke, which covers accommodation, catering, Woodbrooke staffing, etc. We will charge a smaller fee for those online, mainly to pay for the technical side of running an effective blended meeting, with multiple cameras and microphones, recording facilities, Zoom costs etc. We will also ask for extra donations, but only from those who wish to give them, to cover the costs of the speakers’ accommodation and travel.