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Yearly Meeting Gathering 2021

Updated 11 January 2024

Yearly Meeting Gathering 2021

Eldership and oversight: With a tender hand

Updated 10 January 2024

'With a tender hand' is a resource book for eldership and oversight. This webpage provides support material to complement the publication.

With a tender hand

YMAC 1–3 November 2024

Updated 5 February 2025

Yearly Meeting Agenda Committee met to discuss plans for Yearly Meeting 2025, including timing, content and the Swarthmore Lecture.

Yearly Meeting Agenda Committee meeting, 1–3 November 2024

Making teams for under 18s programmes at Yearly Meeting

Updated 17 January 2025

Quakers across the Yearly Meeting have come forward to volunteer to help run the children's and youth events at Yearly Meeting this year, 23-26 May. The programmes for under 18s give opportunities to explore Quakerism and build community, and couldn't happen without the generosity of volunteers.

Making teams for under 18s programmes at Yearly Meeting

MfS 1 March 2025

Updated 19 March 2025

Meeting for Sufferings met for the first of its four meetings in 2025.

MfS 1 March 2025

QLCC 14 June 2025

Updated 23 June 2025

Quaker Life Central Committee (QLCC) heard about the work to support youth, children and families, including at Yearly Meeting. It also received updates on the work and on upcoming Quaker Life Representative Council meetings.

QLCC 14 June 2025

QWRC 14 June 2025

Updated 2 July 2025

Quaker World Relations Committee (QWRC) considered how we welcome overseas visitors at Yearly Meeting and about how British Friends can learn more about world Quakerism.

QWRC 14 June 2025

BDRC 9 July and 11-13 July 2025

Updated 18 August 2025

The Book of Discipline Revision Committee met to discuss the latest progress in updating Quaker faith & practice ready for a new draft text to be presented to Yearly Meeting in 2027.

BDRC July 9 July and 11-13 July 2025

Staying engaged after the election

Updated 25 September 2017

As Quakers, we have a long history of speaking truth to power and getting involved in politics. The election offered us a great opportunity to talk about important issues. Those debates shouldn't end now that it's over.

Staying engaged after the election

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