Britain Yearly Meeting 2015: Children and young people

Friends of all ages attended Britain Yearly Meeting activities

by Elinor Smallman 8th May 2015

A hundred and thirty children and young people took part in programmes for under-eighteens at Yearly Meeting. They reflected on inequality and injustice through a range of creative and engaging activities.

Forty-seven children – ranging from New Shoots, aged under-two, to Spiritual Adventurers, aged seven to eleven – considered: ‘Is it fair?’

The Young People’s Programme, held at High Leigh in Hoddesdon, saw thirty-two eleven – to fifteen-year-olds probe: ‘Understanding inequality – what can WE do?’

At the Lee Valley Youth Hostel fifty-one Junior Yearly Meeting (JYM) participants, aged fifteen to eighteen, explored: ‘How do we, as Quakers, respond to injustice?’