Final call: feedback requested by this Sunday (13th October 2024) to contribute to discernment about the future of our central committee structure.

In 2023 Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) started thinking about how we might change our committee structure to make it simpler, more sustainable and more inclusive. Minute 21 of Yearly Meeting 2023 asked BYM trustees to continue this work. In August 2023 BYM trustees set up the Group to Review Central Structures (GRCS), bringing together Friends with wide experience of our current committee structure. GRCS now needs feedback from Friends.

In summary, GRCS is proposing the creation of a single central committee. We hope you can answer the following questions:

• What are your hopes for how a single central committee might turn discernment into action?
• What are your concerns about how a single central committee might operate in the proposed structure?
• Are there any other comments you wish to share with GRCS to contribute to their discernment on this change?

Please read this document and consider the questions. Responses are welcome from individual Friends, informal groups, and Quaker communities. GRCS will consider all responses and report to BYM trustees in November 2024.

Please send all contributions to governance@quaker.org.uk by no later than 13/10/2024