Membership

Membership Procedures

Britain Yearly Meeting in May 2006 accepted the report of the Quaker Life Membership Procedures Group.  Its minute (23) explains how the process for membership acquisition which is now based on significant criteria rather than the process of application.  This gives monthly meetings flexibility in determining their own process within these criteria.

The following 4 documents will be of interest to those wishing to know more about this:

• The Yearly Meeting minute 23 [PDF: 28kb - new window]
• The Report to Yearly Meeting 2006 [PDF: 64kb - new window]
• The 2004 Consultation document to monthly meetings [PDF 48kb - new window]
• The 2004 document on shared ideas of experimental procedures frm meetings [PDF: 120kb - new window]

Chapter 11 (Membership) of Quaker faith & practice is being amended to encompass changes made in Yearly Meeting 2007.  The latest version of Quaker faith & practice is available online at  www.quaker.org.uk/qfp.

Quaker Life receives some information from monthly meetings on how they are adapting their procedures in the light of the report and Yearly Meeting decision.

Copies of these can be obtained from Michael Hutchinson

Quaker Life
Friends House
173-177 Euston Road
London NW1 2BJ

tel. 020 7663 1124 or email michaelh@quaker.org.uk

However, monthly meetings do not automatically send their adopted or changed procedures to Friends House, so contacting other monthly meetings direct (perhaps the ones named in the sharing experience document) might produce best results.