Yearly Meeting is organised and run by Quakers. Please consider offering your time to help the delivery of Yearly Meeting and Children and Young People's Programmes.
If you are interested in the wide world of Quaker service, please visit our Give time area for year-round opportunities.
We are committed to safer recruitment process, if this is relevant to a role you'll find more information in the description below.
Children and Young People's Programmes
- To stay updated about future volunteering at events, please fill in our online form. The opportunity to 'offer service' for 2025 closed Monday, 13 January. These roles follow our safer recruitment process.
Pastoral care
- Are you someone other people say is good at listening? Can you respect and maintain confidentiality and healthy boundaries? The pastoral care group are looking for people who are friendly, welcoming, team players. If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you! Volunteering can be a wonderful way to meet new people and nurture your community. We are committed to safer recruitment process, and this means you will need references and a Basic DBS, through the Due Diligence Checking service. For more information, please see attached YM pastoral support role outline and Expectations and support for role holders.
- Offer your service as a Pastoral Care Volunteer.
Serve on Yearly Meeting Nominating Group
- Can you see the spark of potential in others? Do you enjoy connecting with Friends?
- If you are curious about this interesting and unique service with Nominating Group, we would love to hear from you!
- Find out more and enquire
Community hub
- Are you someone who is good at helping people to feel included, supported, and at ease? Then the community hub is the perfect opportunity to put your skills into action. The hub is a space for Friends attending Yearly Meeting for the first time and those who want to meet with others and chat. You will need to be attending at Friends House to help with this. Before offering service please read the role outline (PDF).
- Offer your service to help in the community hub.
Doorkeepers and microphone stewards
- Are you coming to Friends House? Do you want to give service, but you don't want to miss Yearly Meeting in session? The following roles contribute to the smooth running of the event, working in the background to ensure that the clerks are supported. You will need to be in position 20 minutes before the sessions start.
- Microphone stewards: during open worship, you will wait for the elders to call Friends who rise to minister. During session, you will listen for the clerk to call you to pass the microphone to a specific Friend. You will be required to be unobtrusive whilst the speaker has the microphone.
- Doorkeepers: you will facilitate the entry of people into the Large Meeting House, this includes welcoming them and holding back latecomers until suitable breaks in the proceedings.
- Offer your service as a doorkeeper or microphone steward
Reviewing children and young people's programmes
- Do you enjoy hearing about people's experiences? Are you good at highlighting what's gone well and identifying areas for development? Children and young people are an integral part of Yearly Meeting, and each year we offer an opportunity for someone independent to summarise the experience of participants and team members. You would play a part in ensuring that these events continue to make a difference to the lives of young Quakers. You will be sent copies of the feedback forms which you will review against the aims of the event. The report is then sent to the committee that oversees the programme. Previous reviewers have commented that reading about the experiences of participants is a rewarding opportunity.
- You will need to be available to complete this task at some point between 1 to 18 June 2025.
- Offer your service to review Children & Young People's programmes
Committee to Examine Minutes
- Yearly Meeting will nominate and appoint Friends to serve on the Committee to Examine Minutes. This operates during Yearly Meeting and is responsible on a rota basis for checking the minutes at the close of each session and correcting any slight inaccuracies. Friends can be nominated to this committee in advance of Yearly Meeting. Friends must be attending Yearly Meeting (in person or online) to serve and have access to a computer and be comfortable with working with an online document. The deadline for nominations is 17.00 on Sunday 17 May. If we receive nominations for more than ten Friends, Yearly Meeting Arrangements Committee will determine the names to be brought before Yearly Meeting on Friday 23 May.
- Offer your service on Committee to Examine Minutes