Meeting for Sufferings: Friends consider simplification

‘Is Meeting for Suffering content to see significant amalgamations of AMs (and other bodies) take place?’

Simplification was the next big agenda item. Lesley Richards, clerk of Symud Ymlaen (Moving Forwards) and Helen Drewery, clerk of Pan London Governance Steering Group, spoke on the proposals for different configurations for Area Meetings (AMs). Friends heard that in London and Wales and the Marches there are plans to bring a group of AMs together so that there is only one charity, with one set of trustees being responsible for legal and financial matters across the wider grouping. This idea is at different stages of consideration elsewhere, in Scotland and Yorkshire for example.

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