Leaveners.org > Links

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• Quaker Links - general Quakerism sites.
• Young Quaker Links - sites for Young Quakers.
• Youth Theatre Links - sites about other Youth Theatres in Britain.
• Theatre Links - other theatre sites.
• Youth Links - sites with information for young people.
• Deaf-Hearing Links - sites for deaf people and those wanting to learn some BSL.
• Peace and Volunteering Links - sites of Quaker peace groups and volunteer work.

Quaker Links

• Religious Society of Friends - a large directory of links and information about Friends worldwide.
• Britain Yearly Meeting - lots information and links including a facility to search for your local meeting by postcode or location map.
• The Friend - the website of the weekly Quaker magazine with an archive of back issues to download without charge.
• Quaker Bolivia Link - an interneational development organisation dedicated to reducing poverty among the indiginous peoples of Bolivia.
• Woodbrooke - Quaker Study Center in Birmingham, UK
• Quaker Song - A website by Peter and Annie Blood-Patterson, creators of the 'Rise Up Singing' songbook

Young Quaker Links

• FriendLink - Message boards for Young Quakers - also used to organise, discuss and remember Leaveners events.
• Britain Yearly Meeting Under 19's - includes a good guide to Quakerism and Quaker views on issues such as abortion and use of drugs, a message board and the Young People's Calendar of all the national and regional events held for U19s in Britain.
• Young Friends General Meeting - an organisation of 18-30 year old Quakers who have residential weekends around the country.
• Young Quaker Magazine - Young Quaker is the magazine of YFGM providing a forum for religious, social, environmental and other issues. It lists national and international events as well as changes of address and other notices.
• Leicester Young Quakers

Youth Theatre Links

• National Youth Theatre - information about the history of NYT and how to join.
• National Youth Music Theatre - information about current shows and how to join in with or without interviews and auditions.
• National Youth Arts Wales - with links to other national youth arts groups.
• Scottish Youth Theatre - information on their drama classes and their summer residentual project.
• National Association of Youth Theatres - includes a very thorough Links page of the Youth Theatres in Britain.

Theatre Links

• Greenbelt - a leading European Christian arts festival The Leaveners Theatre Company often take part in.

Youth Links

• National Youth Agency - lots of information and articles.
• youthinformation.com - info for young people on education, the enviroment, relationships, health, justice and money, etc.
• Radio1 Essentials - information and advice about travel, money, revision and all of the kind of things in the above website.

Deaf-Hearing Links

• British Deaf Association - information about the BDA and BSL.
• Deaf Chat - multi-room chatroom for deaf and hearing people worldwide.
• British Sign Langauge Alphabet Signs - photos of BSL fingerspelling from the perspective of the signer and the receiver.
• BritishSignLanguage.com - animated photo GIFs of basic words in BSL.
• DeafSign.com - type into your keyboard and it'll show you how to fingerspell.

Peace and Volunteering Links

• Leap Confronting Conflict - Leap Confronting Conflict works with young people to develop skills such as cooperation and team-building.
• Northern Friends Peace Board - a committe of Quakers from the North of Britain who organise oppotunities for Quakers to reflect on the peace testimony, and produce a range of materials promoting peace.
• Peace Brigades International - information about how to do get involved in peace work abroad.
• National Centre for Volunteering - a list of agency to help people considering doing volunteer work.