Michael Addison has been appointed director of Northfield Ecocentre, a Central England Area Meeting project in Birmingham. Michael will work three days a week from 23 February,…
Manchester and Warrington Area Meeting Social Justice Group held an equality vigil on 17 December. Up to thirty Friends took part on the steps of the Mount Street Meeting House in…
BYM Budget process Northumbria Area Meeting’s minute brought a concern about Britain Yearly Meeting’s (BYM) budgeting process. They believe ‘there is an ambiguity [in Church…
The Retreat presented its triennial report to Meeting for Sufferings. Clerk to members, John Miles, read Advices & queries 22, explaining to Sufferings that it captures the…
Trustees met during the lunch break at Meeting for Sufferings to decide whether to register Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) for the Lobbying Act. The Act is known in full as the…
End of life issues were a large part of Quaker Life’s report to Meeting for Sufferings. However, before the discussion, Martin Pennock, clerk of Quaker Life Central Committee…
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