Meeting for Sufferings: Work in Scotland

'New local development worker (LDW), Zoe Prosser, has helped reconnect a community where ‘many people have to travel over an hour’ to get to a Meeting.'

Friends heard what was later described as an ‘inspiring’ report from Elizabeth Allen, clerk of General Meeting for Scotland. ‘If you look at statistics, we’re old and our numbers are declining and like Quaker Meetings around the country we’re having great difficulty filling our roles,’ she said. ‘This is a depressing picture, but look closer and you’ll see the green shoots of new growth.’

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