The documents on this page will help you get ready for Yearly Meeting. Produced each year the first document is Preparing for Yearly Meeting, which includes the calling letter. Documents in Advance is a set of documents which introduce the theme of Yearly Meeting, and contain reports from across Britain Yearly Meeting. They include:
Annual Review
Agenda & Notes
Patterns of membership and tabular statement
Schedule of nominations
Testimonies
During Yearly Meeting, we will publish the letters of greeting received from other Yearly Meetings and Friends World Committee for Consultation.
Preparing for Yearly Meeting
- The calling letter (PDF) from Adwoa Burnley, Yearly Meeting Clerk nominate, welcomes Friends from around Britain and the world to Yearly Meeting, and introduces the event and areas for discernment this year.
- Preparing for Yearly Meeting ( PDF) is a brief document to introduce what's on offer at Yearly Meeting, resources to help you prepare Yearly Meeting discernment, It contains the Community Agreement and practical details about the event.
- Documents in advance , these documents include Agenda and Notes which introduces the Agenda for Yearly Meeting. Also included in Documents in Advance are Testimonies, Annual Report and Review, Patterns of Membership and Schedule of Nominations.
Letters of greeting
Attending Friends House
- The document Attending Friends House (PDF) includes important information about activities in Friends House during the Yearly Meeting weekend. Printed copies will be available at Yearly Meeting.
Agenda and notes
- Friends should read through this document in advance of Yearly Meeting as the content of Agenda and notes (PDF) 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.
- Minute 37 of from Yearly Meeting 2024 (PDF)
- Minute 24/12/11 from MfS December 2024 (PDF)
- Area meeting compliance report (PDF)
Testimonies
- The Testimonies (PDF), 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 and Annual review
- 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.
- The Annual Review from the Recording Clerk is a review of the work undertaken by the charity throughout the past year.
Patterns of membership
- The Patterns of membership and tabular statement (PFD) is the recorded count of Quakers in Britain. The tabular statement records members and attenders of all ages.
Schedule of nominations
- The Schedule of nominations (PDF) 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 following Advices and Queries for Yearly Meeting (PDF).
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.