Preparing for Yearly Meeting 2025: Part six

BYM Reparations Group - The war within our own society - Clerks of Meeting for Sufferings and Britain Yearly Meeting trustees - Experiences of becoming a single Quaker charity for Wales and the Marches - Quakers in Criminal Justice - Quaker Family History Society

by Rebecca Hardy, Joseph Jones, and Elinor Smallman 9th May 2025

Friday offered a chance to engage with the BYM Reparations Group and their work to recommend a response to Yearly Meeting minutes 27 and 33 of 2022 concerning reparation for the transatlantic chattel enslavement system. Anne Floyd from the group introduced several of the group’s members, including Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman, reparations coordinator for BYM. After worship Anne asked: ‘Why are we on this journey?’ YM had made a ‘call to all of us’, but the Reparations Working Group (RWG) had a specific remit to think about how we might respond collectively. Members of the RWG had learned a lot, since beginning its work in November 2023, but were not yet ready to make proposals – Yearly Meeting 2027 is the target for that.