Yearly Meeting documents

Agenda and notes

  • Friends should read through this document in advance of Yearly Meeting as the content of Agenda and notes is referred to throughout Yearly Meeting sessions. It is an instructive, guiding document for the Yearly Meeting to help with preparations both practical and spiritual. It contains introductory material for Yearly Meeting, and the annual reports of Meeting for Sufferings, central committees, and other related bodies

Testimonies

  • The Testimonies, or 'Testimonies to the Grace of God in lives' records the testimonies sent to Yearly Meeting by Area Meetings across the country of those Friends who have passed away in recent years. Testimonies radiate the Grace of God as shown in the lives of the Friends who have died. They differ from an obituary account of achievements, a few milestones in the life of the deceased serves to illuminate the spiritual gifts bestowed.

Annual report

  • The Annual Report from Trustees covers the work undertaken by Quakers in Britain, the charitable organisation, and includes financial statements for the previous year. The Annual Report will be available on the website, together with Quiet Company's annual report and financial statements when they have been approved by the relevant governance bodies. We expect BYM's annual report and accounts to be brought to Meeting for Sufferings in October 2025. The latest available Annual Report can be found on the BYM Trustees page.

Patterns of membership

  • The Patterns of membership and tabular statement is the recorded count of Quakers in Britain. The tabular statement records members and attenders of all ages.

Schedule of nominations

  • Schedule of nominations records all of the proposed nominations that are due to be made at Yearly Meeting. Please refer to the Agenda and notes to see when specific nominations will be taken in Yearly Meeting Sessions.

Advices and Queries

  • How might we encourage ministry that is faithful, loving, and deeply rooted in the Spirit's gathering and guiding presence among us? Clerks and elders have worked with Woodbrooke to draw together the Advices and Queries for Yearly Meeting.

View the archive

  • Watch sessions and lectures and read documents from previous Yearly Meetings. The Yearly Meeting archive contains the minutes, epistle and lectures from the previous seven Yearly Meetings. Visit the archive.

View the archive

Watch sessions and lectures and read documents from previous Yearly Meetings.

The Yearly Meeting archive contains the minutes, epistle and lectures from the previous seven Yearly Meetings.

Visit the archive