The final Yearly Meeting in the ‘old model’ begins on Friday 1st May, with the booking deadline on Monday 27th April, and a Devotional Area Meeting to help us prepare hearts and minds on Friday 24th April.

Preparing for Yearly Meeting (PDF) introduces what’s on offer, resources to help you prepare for Yearly Meeting discernment, and practical details about the event. The calling letter and other documents in advance are also available.

A reminder that at the close of this Yearly Meeting, we will transition into a ‘new model’ of Continuing Yearly Meeting, as discerned in 2024. Details and dates are available, and a new Hope So! newsletter will provide updates.

2026

• 18 July in Manchester at Kings House Conference Centre
• 21 November at Friends House, London

2027

• 20 February at Friends House
• 1 May at Friends House
• 24–28 July out of London, residential – venue TBC
• 20 November at Friends House

2028

• 19 February at Friends House
• 28 April–1 May at Friends House
• 22 July outside London – venue TBC
• 18 November at Friends House

Hope So!

Hope so! is a regular email update on the sessions and committees of our Yearly Meeting.

Each issue you can expect to see things like:

• Updates from committees like Quaker Life Central Committee, Quaker Peace & Social Witness Central Committee, Quaker Committee on Christian & Interfaith Relations, Quaker World Relations Committee, BYM Trustees
• Information from Central Nominations Committee about the roles they nominate to & how you can express an interest
• Reflections on the business taken at the last Meeting for Sufferings and Yearly Meeting sessions
• Updates from the Agenda Planning Committee about the business expected to be taken at the next Yearly Meeting session
• Pointers on how you could get involved in the governance of the centrally managed work
• Reminders of dates and venues of upcoming Yearly Meeting sessions.

What are the changes to Yearly Meeting?

Once there is a continuing Yearly Meeting then Yearly Meeting will meet four times each year, rather than just once as it does now. There will be one longer meeting and three shorter ones. From time to time there will be residential meetings along the lines of the Yearly Meeting Gatherings held in 2009, 2011, 2014 and 2017.

Yearly Meeting will still be the meeting where Quakers from across Britain make the most important decisions about issues that matter to us. The four meetings of Yearly Meeting will all be open to any Quaker who wants to come.

Meeting for Sufferings will not be held any more as all our important Quaker business will be done at Yearly Meeting.

Why are we doing this?

We hope that the change to a continuing Yearly Meeting will:

• allow all Friends to participate in Quaker discernment on important issues – although meetings will appoint representatives, any Quaker will be welcome
• give us the time we need to reflect on big decisions without causing too much delay – if an item of business needs more time then it can be put back on the agenda later in the year and we won’t have to wait 12 months for a decision
• give more opportunities for all of us (including children and young people) to meet, build our community and worship together
• make it easier to understand our Quaker structures – it will be clear that the most important decisions are made at Yearly Meeting

More information, including a call for representatives to Yearly Meeting, and answers to Frequently Asked Questions are available on the Quakers in Britain website: