Meeting for Sufferings: Trustees reports
‘These are challenging times’, it said, ‘and change is inevitable.'
Introducing her report, clerk to BYM trustees Caroline Nursey said that they had replaced their July weekend away with six online sessions. Trustees had felt upheld despite these constraints she said, thanking Friends. Becoming a Society that resisted racism had been one of the main matters, she went on, which had led to a statement. But trustees had not spent a lot of time discussing specifics like the naming of the William Penn room at Friends House: ‘A room name is not what matters’. She was interested to see what would come out of the discernment on the subject at Yearly Meeting Gathering.
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