Britain Yearly Meeting trustees

Ian Kirk-Smith reports on the report of Britain Yearly Meeting trustees at Yearly Meeting Gathering

The report of Britain Yearly Meeting trustees at Yearly Meeting Gathering (YMG) was enhanced by the imaginative use of a commissioned film.

The film took a geographic area – the North-East of England – and conveyed how a group of Friends there engaged with centrally managed departments. It was clear, engaging, storytelling and showed that Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) was prepared to make creative use of every medium to convey both information and a message. The film placed centrally managed work in the broader context of Quaker witness in Britain. It also illuminated, in a very effective way, the benefits of developing close links between the centre and the local.

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