Our organisation
This section covers the organisational structure of Quakers in Britain.
The panels below offer a broad outline of the national and local structures of Britain Yearly Meeting. They also include contact details, minutes and our book of discipline.
Updates
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Welcome to Yearly Meeting 18 July 2026
18 May 2026
If you think it doesn't seem very long since the last Yearly Meeting session then you are right! We have now started our new pattern of holding Yearly Meeting sessions, which means that following our May 2026 session we are also meeting in July and November 2026. In 2027 we will meet in February, May, July and November.
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Investments Update
12 May 2026
BYM Trustee Investments Update
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QWRC 17-19 April 2026
12 May 2026
Quaker World Relations Committee (QWRC) held its residential meeting in Swarthmoor Hall.
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QPSWCC 20-22 March 2026
27 April 2026
Quaker Peace & Social Witness Central Committee (QPSWCC) met for its annual residential meeting at Swarthmoor Hall. They discussed Quaker action for peace, protest rights and responding to hatred and division in society.
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QLCC 26 Feb 2026
17 March 2026
Quaker Life Central Committee (QLCC) met on 26 February. It endorsed a new strategy for supporting Quaker Communities to thrive.
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MfS 7 March 2026
16 March 2026
Meeting for Sufferings has been the national meeting of representatives of area meetings and some other Quaker communities and committees, taking on some of the work of the yearly meeting in between Yearly Meeting sessions.
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Introducing the Agenda Planning Committee (APC)
13 March 2026
The new Agenda Planning Committee will work closely with Yearly Meeting clerks to shape the agenda for these sessions.