Britain Yearly Meeting Trustees
Become a trustee!
17 January 2024
We are looking for new trustees and are keen to hear from younger people for this life-changing and inspiring role.
The role and responsibilities of Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) Trustees are describe in more detail Quaker faith & practice Chapter 8 (offsite link).
The 70 area meetings also appoint trustees at local level. There is a separate page for area meeting trustees.
Trustees' annual review, annual report and financial statements
- Annual report, including financial statements for the year ending 31 December 2024 (PDF) (signatures redacted for fraud prevention)
- Making an impact: six stories from our work (PDF) givesoffers an insight into breadth and depth of our work.
- Trustees' minutes 5-6 September 2025 (PDF)
- Trustees' minutes 6-8 June 2025 (PDF)
- Trustees' minutes 8 May 2025 (PDF)
- Trustees' minutes 8 February 2025 (PDF)
- Trustees' minutes 22 November 2024 (PDF)
- Trustees' minutes 6-7 September 2024 (PDF)
- Trustees' minutes 28 July 2024 (PDF)
- Trustees' minutes 18 July 2024 (PDF)
- Trustees' minutes 7-9 June 2024 (PDF)
- Trustees' minutes 19 February 2024 (PDF)
- Trustees' minutes 10 February 2024 (PDF)
- A response from Clerks of Trustees to critical correspondence received following Yearly Meeting 2025 on trustees' policy concerning the provision of toilets at Friends House (PDF)
- Statement of policy on provision of trans-inclusive facilities on Britain Yearly Meeting's estate (PDF)
- At their June 2021 meeting, the trustees of Britain Yearly Meeting continued their work on responding to racism. They agreed a statement, Responding to racism (PDF) on becoming an anti-racist employer and embedding anti-racism in all work programmes.
- BYM investment policy 2021 (Word)
- BYM trustees' terms of reference 2021 (PDF)
- BYM list of investments as of 31 December 2024 (PDF)
- BYM list of grants 2019 (PDF)
- BYM governing document August 2021 (PDF)
- Find it, fix it, prevent it' investor statement (PDF)
- Marisa Johnson (Clerk) (Cambridgeshire Area Meeting)
- Kit King (Assistant Clerk) (London West Area Meeting)
- Paul Whitehouse (ex officio Treasurer) (Bristol Area Meeting)
- Catherine Brown (Hampshire & Islands Area Meeting)
- Lis Burch (Oxford & Swindon Area Meeting)
- Kit Fotheringham (Oxford & Swindon Area Meeting)
- Ursula Fuller (East Kent Area Meeting)
- Jo Hills (West Weald Area Meeting)
- Chris Jardine (South East Scotland Area Meeting)
- Liz Law (South East Scotland Area Meeting)
- John Lewis (South Wales Area Meeting)
- Ruth McTighe (Central Yorkshire Area Meeting)
- Silas Price (Norfolk & Waveney Area Meeting)
- Elizabeth Redfern (Leicester Area Meeting)
Minutes and papers
Earlier non-confidential minutes of Britain Yearly Meeting Trustees' meetings are available from the Recording Clerk's Office. Please email governance@quaker.org.ukk.