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Papers and minutes

Updated 8 March 2024

This page contains papers for the next meeting. It also provides links to minutes and papers for recent meetings.

Papers and minutes

Yearly Meeting 2023

Updated 6 March 2024

Yearly Meeting 2023

Clerks Update: September 2023

Updated 13 October 2023

Issue 7 of Clerks' Update in 2023 is now available. This is a key communication channel for local and area meeting clerks.

Clerks Update: September 2023

Clerks

Updated 15 March 2024

From the outside the clerk appears like a cross between a chair and a secretary. Clerks prepare the agenda, do the necessary administration and guide the meeting through the items of business.

Quaker Life Representative Council (QLRC) Autumn 2023

Updated 19 July 2023

Bookings open for Quaker Life Representative Council (QLRC) which will be held in-person at Milton Hill House, Abingdon (OX13 6AF), and as an online blended event.

Quaker Life Representative Council (QLRC) Autumn 2023

Quaker Week 2023: 'Simple. Radical. Spiritual.'

Updated 1 August 2023

Quaker Life now has new outreach resources available to order through our Quaker Week campaign for this year: 'Simple. Radical. Spiritual.'

Quaker Week 2023: 'Simple. Radical. Spiritual.'

After the Gathering: 11 ways to live out our Quaker faith in the world

Updated 17 February 2020

I left Yearly Meeting Gathering with a sense of hope for the future. It took me a while to identify this, given that the daily news discourages a feeling as impertinent as hope. This Yearly Meeting Gathering was the culmination of a three-year arc looking at living out Quaker faith in the world, and it felt like many seeds for change were sown. Which of these seeds will grow? Which will take root? Which will flourish for years to come?

11 ways to live out Quaker faith in the world

11 ways to support the arms fair protesters

Updated 25 September 2017

The Defence & Security Equipment International (DSEI) event, despite its sanitised title, is actually the world's largest arms fair. The recent week of action to stop it happening saw many inspiring acts of witness.

11 ways to support the arms fair protesters

9 voices the Department for Education would ban from schools

Updated 8 October 2020

Recent Department for Education guidance tells headteachers in England to ensure external organisations, speakers and resources do not take "extremist" stances. These include a stated desire to abolish capitalism and "a failure to condemn illegal activities done in support of their cause". The guidance also bans "victim narratives that are harmful to British society".

9 voices the Department for Education would ban from schools

Thinking of attending Yearly Meeting?

Updated 11 January 2023

Are you coming to Yearly Meeting for the first time? Or maybe you have been before and are looking for the essential details on how to attend. Either way, welcome! It's wonderful to see so many Friends.

Thinking of attending Yearly Meeting 2023?