November Yearly Meeting

The next session of YM will be held at Friends House and online on 21 November. The Agenda Planning Committee is using feedback from the July session to make some changes to how things work please continue to let us know what is good and bad from your perspective, whether you are at the venue or joining online.

The agenda will be finalised at the end of September and papers should be available at the end of October. As of now, we expect that the following items will be on the agenda:

Suggested changes to the wording of the Quaker marriage declaration

Report from the reparation conference on 26 October

Trustees' annual report and financial statements

Launch of the new draft book of discipline Our Quaker Way

If you are coming to London on Friday 20 November you are warmly invited to Westminster Quaker Meeting House (location here). There will be a drop in silence in the main meeting room (5.30-7pm), tea & cake in the library (6.30pm) and other activities from 7.15pm, ending with epilogue.

We can't promise to have a get together on the Friday evening before every one day session but we are looking at ways to enable this – that might include inviting Area Meetings to 'host' an event at Friends House. If you think your meeting might be able to offer something (show a film, host a discussion, or just hold space for getting to know each other) then please get in touch ym@quaker.org.uk to discuss the possibilities.