More LDWs appointed
LDW to be available to every Quaker community across Britain by summer 2022
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has said that the new local development workers (LDWs) in Yorkshire and Scotland have strengthened Quakers’ ‘network of local support’.
‘A living faith is about relationships,’ said Rachel Matthews, head of Supporting Quaker Communities, for BYM. ‘This underpins this exciting way of offering integrated support to Quaker communities. Expanding local development work, planned long before the Covid-19 pandemic, is part of our new way of working.’
The joint BYM/ Woodbrooke programme is committed to making a LDW available to every Quaker community across Britain by summer 2022. The trustees and committees whose discernment shaped the way forward were helped by a positive external evaluation of the pilot programme.
The new LDWs joining the team in this phase, Zoe Prosser and Bridget Holtom, will be working in Scotland and Yorkshire, based in East Lothian and the new BYM hub at Carlton Hill. They will be part of BYM’s Supporting Quaker Communities team, working jointly with Woodbrooke’s Learning and Research team.
