The role and responsibilities of Britain Yearly Meeting 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
- Trustees' annual report, including financial statements for the year ending December 2022 (PDF 1.1mb) (signatures redacted for fraud prevention)
- Annual review 'Our faith, our work' 2022-23 (see below)
Minutes and papers
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
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 2020 (PDF)
- BYM list of grants 2019 (PDF)
- BYM investment policy 2018 (PDF)
- BYM governing document August 2021 (PDF)
- Find it, fix it, prevent it' investor statement (PDF)
Current trustees
- Caroline Nursey (Clerk) (London West Area Meeting)
- Graham Torr (Assistant Clerk) (York Area Meeting)
- Paul Whitehouse (ex officio Treasurer) (Bristol Area Meeting)
- Georgina Bailey (London West Area Meeting)
- Alison Breadon (Wirral & Chester Area Meeting)
- Catherine Brown (Hampshire & Islands Area Meeting)
- Kit Fotheringham (Devon Area Meeting)
- Kate Gulliver (West Scotland)
- Ellie Harding (Central England Area Meeting)
- Carolyn Hayman (North West London Area Meeting)
- Marisa Johnson (Cambridgeshire Area Meeting)
- Silas Price (Norfolk & Waveney Area Meeting)
- Frances Voelcker (North Wales Area Meeting)
- Danielle Walker Palmour (York Area Meeting)