Yearly Meeting 2024 - part one

‘Meeting is not something we can pull off on our own.’ The Friend reports from Yearly Meeting 2024, Friday to Sunday

by Rebecca Hardy, Joseph Jones, Elinor Smallman 2nd August 2024

More than 1,700 Friends had registered to attend Yearly Meeting (YM) 2024, said clerk Adwoa Burnley in its Opening Session (up from around 1,500 in 2022). Online attendance is now well established, and just short of 700 Friends intended to join that way. Everyone present should feel a full part of the Meeting, said Adwoa, but she repeated what she said last year: this was going to take discipline, compassion and patience.