Britain Yearly Meeting Trustees

The role and responsibilities of Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) Trustees are describe in more detail Quaker faith & practice Chapter 8 (offsite link).

The 70 area meetings also appoint trustees at local level. There is a separate page for area meeting trustees.

Trustees' annual review, annual report and financial statements

• Annual report, including financial statements for the year ending 31 December 2023 (PDF) (signatures redacted for fraud prevention)
• Annual review 'Our faith, our work' 2023 (see below)

Minutes and papers

• Trustees' minutes 6-8 June 2025 (PDF)
• Trustees' minutes 8 May 2025 (PDF)
• Trustees' minutes 8 February 2025 (PDF)
• Trustees' minutes 22 November 2024 (PDF)
• Trustees' minutes 6-7 September 2024 (PDF)
• Trustees' minutes 28 July 2024 (PDF)
• Trustees' minutes 18 July 2024 (PDF)
• Trustees' minutes 7-9 June 2024 (PDF)
• Trustees' minutes 19 February 2024 (PDF)
• Trustees' minutes 10 February 2024 (PDF)

Earlier non-confidential minutes of Britain Yearly Meeting Trustees' meetings are available from the Recording Clerk's Office. Please contact Neil Jarvis on 020 7663 1192 or neilj@quaker.org.uk.

Documents

• A response from Clerks of Trustees to critical correspondence received following Yearly Meeting 2025 on trustees' policy concerning the provision of toilets at Friends House (PDF)
• Statement of policy on provision of trans-inclusive facilities on Britain Yearly Meeting's estate (PDF)
• At their June 2021 meeting, the trustees of Britain Yearly Meeting continued their work on responding to racism. They agreed a statement, Responding to racism (PDF) on becoming an anti-racist employer and embedding anti-racism in all work programmes.
• BYM investment policy 2021 (Word)
• BYM trustees' terms of reference 2021 (PDF)
• BYM list of investments as of 31 December 2024 (PDF)
• BYM list of grants 2019 (PDF)
• BYM governing document August 2021 (PDF)
• Find it, fix it, prevent it' investor statement (PDF)

Current trustees

• Marisa Johnson (Clerk) (Cambridgeshire Area Meeting)
• Kit King (Assistant Clerk) (Mid Essex Area Meeting)
• Paul Whitehouse (ex officio Treasurer) (Bristol Area Meeting)
• Catherine Brown (Hampshire & Islands Area Meeting)
• Lis Burch (Oxford & Swindon Area Meeting)
• Kit Fotheringham (Oxford & Swindon Area Meeting)
• Ursula Fuller (East Kent Area Meeting)
• Jo Hills (West Weald Area Meeting)
• Chris Jardine (South East Scotland Area Meeting)
• Liz Law (South East Scotland Area Meeting)
• John Lewis (South Wales Area Meeting)
• Silas Price (Norfolk & Waveney Area Meeting)
• Elizabeth Redfern (Leicester Area Meeting)
• Danielle Walker Palmour (York Area Meeting)