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Working with Meeting for Sufferings

Updated 23 September 2025

The Meeting for Sufferings agenda is planned by Meeting for Sufferings Arrangements Group, usually about a month before each meeting. This guidance on process and timing aims to help ensure that Meeting for Sufferings can deal with minutes effectively.

Visit the Library

Updated 17 February 2026

Welcome to the Library of the Society of Friends. Here you will find all the information you need to visit the Library and use our collections. Anyone wishing to use any of our collections should make an appointment in advance, please see below for instructions on how to do so.

Information on visiting the Library

Papers and minutes

Updated 13 March 2026

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

Meeting for Sufferings papers and minutes

Quaker concerns

Updated 8 January 2026

Recent public letters, parliamentarian briefings and submissions on issues of concern to Quakers.

Quaker concerns

Britain Yearly Meeting Trustees

Updated 12 March 2026

Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) Trustees are responsible for the work, assets and property of the yearly meeting.

Britain Yearly Meeting Trustees

List of area meetings

Updated 2 March 2026

The full listings of area meetings are listed below with generic contact email addresses for each area meeting.

List of area meetings

Friends Southern Summer Events (FSSE)

Updated 2 December 2024

FSSE organises two residential Quaker events every year in August: Junior Gathering (formerly Summer School, ages 11-14) and Friends Southern Senior Conference (15-18). These events advocate the Quaker testimonies and are significant in the lives of those who attend. They build confidence, knowledge and supportive friendships which can last a lifetime.

Friends Southern Summer Events (FSSE)

The Mount School

Updated 2 December 2024

The Mount School is an independent Quaker School that educates girls from 2 to 18 and boys aged 2 to 4 in the Pre-School. It is a day and boarding school of approximately 230 pupils aged 2 to 18.

The Mount School

Yearly Meeting documents

Updated 27 February 2026

Yearly Meeting documents

Programme

Updated 15 December 2025

Yearly Meeting Programme