Our organisation
This section covers the organisational structure of Quakers in Britain.
The panels below offer a broad outline of the national and local structures of Britain Yearly Meeting. They also include contact details, minutes and our book of discipline.
Updates
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CGAG May and June 2026
23 June 2026
Church Government Advisory Group (CGAG) was pleased that the changes to Quaker faith & practice that were agreed at Yearly Meeting in May have been included in the online version on Quaker faith & practice
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QLCC 13 June 2026
23 June 2026
Quaker Life Central Committee (QLCC) looked in detail at work to support governance of local and area meetings, including mitigation of governance risks. They also received the evaluations of programmes for youth, children and families at Yearly Meeting in May, and received updates on new ways into membership and on the Programmes & Prioritisation Committee.
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BDRC 3 and 5-7 June 2026
23 June 2026
The Book of Discipline Revision Committee met to discuss the final parts of the new book and to look at how the draft will be shared with Friends from November, and how we will process responses from Meetings
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QLCC 17-19 April 2026
10 June 2026
Quaker Life Central Committee (QLCC) reviewed and agreed changes to areas of work related to safeguarding, prison chaplaincy and antisemitism. We heard about Junior Yearly Meeting (JYM) and the reparation work of the Yearly Meeting.
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APC 23 May 2026
10 June 2026
Agenda Planning Committee finalises agenda for Yearly Meeting, 18 July 2026, to be held in Manchester
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QPSWCC 25 April 2026
10 June 2026
Quaker Peace & Social Witness Central Committee (QPSWCC) considered and reviewed two major areas of work, our peace education programme and our support to East African peacebuilding and nonviolence. It also considered what process we would like to undertake to review the QPSW strategy, which runs out at the end of 2027.
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Welcome to Yearly Meeting 18 July 2026
18 May 2026
If you think it doesn't seem very long since the last Yearly Meeting session then you are right! We have now started our new pattern of holding Yearly Meeting sessions, which means that following our May 2026 session we are also meeting in July and November 2026. In 2027 we will meet in February, May, July and November.