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Quaker Service Information Form

Before the completing the form, we encourage you to read the preliminary notes section below which details the type of information needed by the nomiantions committees to discern the most appropriate service for you.  

Download the Quaker Service Information Form [PDF: 40KB - opens in a new window] and return it to

FREEPOST NW2259, The Recording Clerks Office (Nominations), Friends House 173 Euston Road, London NW1 2YS (no stamp required).

Preliminary notes to completing the Quaker Service Information Form

Serving the Society: an Invitation to a Spiritual Journey

Would you like to help with the centrally-managed work of Britain Yearly Meeting? This can be challenging, fun, occasionally frustrating, mostly rewarding, and above all valuable to the Society. You would need a knowledge, understanding, and love of the Society, and an appreciation of its potential to make the world a better place.

Members of nominations committees cannot know everyone in the Society, and so we offer you the Quaker Service Information Form to enable you to put on record your interests, experience, and skills. This helps to widen the pool of people we can consider and to involve Friends and attenders from all over Britain. There's a list of areas of work - please tick those that interest you, and add further details in the spaces provided.

We'll keep everything you tell us confidential, and after 3 or 4 years we'll ask you to update it. Completing this form does not guarantee that you'll be asked to serve, neither does it put you under any obligation, but it will help us to find the most appropriate Friends to ask.

Thank you for taking the time to complete and return the form. You are welcome to use this freepost address: FREEPOST NW259, Recording Clerk's Office (Nominations), Friends House, 173 Euston Road, London NW1 2YS.

This form enables you put on record your interests, experience, and skills. It provides invaluable information to nominations committees when they try to discern which Friends might be invited to serve in various capacities in our centrally managed work. This form replaces the Offer of Service Form, previously known as the "Yellow Form".

Personal details and availability

Please enter your personal details and availability in the first box. It helps to have an idea of your age, so if you prefer not to put your full date of birth, then just the year would be helpful.

If you're not available for service please tick the box on the form, and then we won't waste your time by making impossible requests.

Interests

Read through the list of areas of Quaker work and tick any of them that interest you. If in doubt, please put more ticks rather than fewer, because we often use these interests to select records from the database. For areas where you have ticked the interest box you can add further ticks to indicate your experience and/or substantial expertise.

Further details

If you wish you can enter more details of your interests in the box below, for example, particular campaigns, different aspects of children's work, specific overseas yearly meetings, etc. 

Experience and Expertise

On the other side of the form you can put information about your experience, employment, qualifications, etc. It is particularly helpful if you mention any experience and expertise that relates to the boxes you have ticked on the front of the form.

Supporting Friends

We ask you to name two Friends who know you well enough to help a nominations committee to check whether a position is suitable for you. Please let these Friends know that you have put their names on the form. When considering you for an appointment, the committee will consult them in confidence.

Thank you again for completing this form. It is so helpful for the central nominations committees to have accurate information about your availability, interests, and experience.

If you have any queries, please contact the Recording Clerk's Office, Friends House, 173-177 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ. Tel. 020 7663 1121 Email. rco@quaker.org.uk