This handbook is for you if you are serving or about to serve on any of the national committees which are responsible for the centrally managed work of Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM). You may be new to the work and wondering about the structures within which you are being asked to work and about exactly what will be expected of you or you may be well experienced in central work but needing to check out what, if anything, has changed since your last period of service. Friends with many different levels of experience and kinds of expertise are called to central work.