Area Business Meeting

Our Area Business Meeting is a special type of Meeting for Worship used to make decisions: from how Quakers spend our money, to adopting a Concern.

Any Member can attend these meetings and take part in decision making: if you are an attender and would like to attend, please ask an Elder or Pastoral Care Friend at your local meeting.  The meeting will be chaired by a Clerk, who will introduce items of business to be discussed, and allow questions to be asked.  Members of the meeting sit silently in worship, reflecting on the matter in hand and try to Discern the way forward. Read more about Quaker structures.

Read minutes of Central England Area Business Meetings from January 2019 onwards.

Find out how papers for each Area Business Meeting are gathered and distributed, and view an archive of papers to circulate from January 2020 onwards.

Upcoming Area Business Meetings:

When & Where Event
Area Meeting November 2024 23/11/2024
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
at Bull St Quaker Meeting House, Birmingham, B4 6AF
Area Meeting November 2024
Workshop 10:45-12:45, Business 14:00-17:00 - An all-day Area Meeting, with a workshop in the morning on 'Belonging & Membership' 10.45am-12.45pm (arrivals and drinks from 10:15am), lunch which will be provided, and then business 2pm-5pm. Workshop: Belonging & Membership With Rhiannon Grant.  What does it mean to belong to a community? Traditionally, Quakers have expressed their commitment to one another through [...]
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