Meeting for Sufferings: Membership data
‘We need to pay attention to when people stop attending… Lots of people drift away, particularly young adults.’
BYM’s recording clerk, Paul Parker, tgave a graphical presentation of some statistics on membership (data on attenders was not included, but showed similar patterns, he said). Presenting a graph with figures dating back to 1860, he noted that although the Society has seen a decline in members since its peak in around 1955, current membership of c12,000 was not vastly different to that of 1860 (c13,500). The loss of members in 2019 amounted to less than one per Meeting, he said, so a reversal would require the addition of just one. This ‘doesn’t feel unachievable’, he said.
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