BYM Survey – Elders & Overseers
What does ‘overseer’ mean to you? Should we change how we describe ‘eldership’? Quaker Life Central Committee wants Friends to fill in a short survey about these terms before the end of 2020. Complete the survey.
Category: Britain Yearly Meeting
Meeting for Sufferings Report
Cathy Khurana (CEQ representative to Meeting for Sufferings) reports from the ‘residential’ meeting held by Zoom video conferencing 2nd – 4th October 2020. This report covers discussion and discernment on: Sustainability and the climate crisis; Quaker Peace and Social Witness Read More …
Yearly Meeting Gathering postponed to 2021
Quakers in Britain have postponed their 2020 Yearly Meeting Gathering (YMG). The ongoing public health situation with the COVID-19 pandemic, very sadly, makes it impossible to bring 2,000 people together for this event. YMG will now take place 31st July Read More …
Sustainability Update
Updates on our commitment to sustainability: a new document from QPSW & a local consultation on the environment. New ‘Net-zero’ briefing Quaker Peace & Social Witness have released a new briefing for Quakers ‘Ending the UK’s contribution to climate change‘. Read More …
Registration Open for Yearly Meeting 2019
Britain Yearly Meeting: 24/05/2019 – 27/05/2019 at Friends House, London. Yearly Meeting, the annual gathering of Quakers in Britain, is set to take place on 24–27 May 2019 at Friends House in London. The four-day event will see Friends come Read More …
Inclusion & Diversity Survey
A request for participation in a simple survey, from Edwina Peart, coordinator of the Inclusion and Diversity Project at Britain Yearly Meeting. Read More …
Catch up with Yearly Meeting
Yearly Meeting, the annual gathering of Quakers in Britain, took place on 4–7 May 2018 at Friends House in London. At the Meeting, the decision was taken to revise Quaker faith & practice, our book of discipline. Paul Parker, recording Read More …
Quaker Peace & Social Witness Conference
Would you like to attend the Quaker Peace and Social Witness Annual Spring Conference in Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick, Derbyshire 23-25 March 2018? The booking deadline is Sunday 28 January 2018. Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW) seeks to support Read More …
Stourbridge hosts Yearly Meeting visitors
John Lampen from Stourbridge Quaker Meeting reports on the meeting’s involvement with visitors from Yearly Meeting Gathering. On the Wednesday of Yearly Meeting Gathering, the participants could go out on trips. One coach load visited the Black Country Living Read More …