Yearly Meeting is organised and run by Quakers. Please consider offering your time to help the delivery of the event.
Children and young people's programmes
To stay updated about future volunteering at events, please fill in online form. You will be sent information about volunteering opportunities for our next round of recruitment in 2025. The opportunity to 'offer service' for 2024 closed Sunday, 25 February.
Serve on Yearly Meeting Nominating Group
Can you see the spark of potential in others? Do you enjoy connecting with Friends?
If you are curious about this interesting and unique service with Nominating Group we would love to hear from you!
Find out more and enquire until 20 July 2024.
Pastoral care
The opportunity to 'offer service' for 2024 closed Sunday 30 June.
Community hub
Are you someone who is good at noticing people who look a bit lost, confused or left out? Then the community hub is the perfect opportunity to put your skills into action. The hub is a space for Friends attending Yearly Meeting for the first time and those who want to meet with others and chat. You will need to be attending at Friends House to help with this. Before offering service please read the role outline (PDF).
Offer your service to help in the community hub.
Doorkeepers and microphone stewards
Are you coming to Friends House and do you want to give service, but you don't want to miss Yearly Meeting in session? You will contribute to the smooth running of the event, working in the background to ensure that the clerks are supported. You will need to be in position 20 minutes before the sessions start.
Microphone stewards: during open worship, you will wait for the elders to call Friends who rise to minister. During session you will listen for the clerk to call you to pass the microphone to a specific Friend. You will be required to be unobtrusive whilst the speaker has the microphone.
Doorkeepers: you will facilitate the entry of people into the Large Meeting House, this includes welcoming them and holding back latecomers until suitable breaks in the proceedings.
Offer your service as a doorkeeper or microphone steward
Reviewing children and young people's programmes
Do you enjoy hearing about people's experiences? Are you good at highlighting what's gone well and identifying areas for development? Children and young people are an integral part of Yearly Meeting, and each year we offer an opportunity for someone independent to summarise the experience of participants and team members. You would play a part in ensuring that these events continue to make a difference to the lives of young Quakers. You will be sent copies of the feedback forms which you will review against the aims of the event. The report is then sent to the committee that oversees the programme. Previous reviewers have commented that reading about the experiences of participants is a rewarding opportunity.
You will need to be available to complete this task at some point between 1 to 14 August 2024.
Offer your service to review Children & Young People's programmes.
Committee to Examine Minutes
Yearly Meeting will nominate and appoint Friends to serve on the Committee to Examine Minutes. This operates during Yearly Meeting and is responsible on a rota basis for checking the minutes at the close of each session and correcting any slight inaccuracies. Friends can be nominated to this committee in advance of Yearly Meeting. Friends must be attending Yearly Meeting (in person or online) to serve and have access to a computer and be comfortable with working with an online document. The deadline for nominations is 17.00 on Sunday 22 April. If we receive nominations for more than ten Friends, Yearly Meeting Arrangements Committee will determine the names to be brought before Yearly Meeting on Friday 27 April.