Our organisation
This section covers the organisational structure of Quakers in Britain.
The panels below offer a broad outline of the national and local structures of Britain Yearly Meeting. They also include contact details, minutes and our book of discipline.
Updates
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QLCC 17-19 April 2026
10 June 2026
Quaker Life Central Committee (QLCC) reviewed and agreed changes to areas of work related to safeguarding, prison chaplaincy and antisemitism. We heard about Junior Yearly Meeting (JYM) and the reparation work of the Yearly Meeting.
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QPSWCC 25 April 2026
10 June 2026
Quaker Peace & Social Witness Central Committee (QPSWCC) considered and reviewed two major areas of work, our peace education programme and our support to East African peacebuilding and nonviolence. It also considered what process we would like to undertake to review the QPSW strategy, which runs out at the end of 2027.
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APC 23 May 2026
10 June 2026
Agenda Planning Committee finalises agenda for Yearly Meeting, 18 July 2026, to be held in Manchester
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Welcome to Yearly Meeting 18 July 2026
18 May 2026
If you think it doesn't seem very long since the last Yearly Meeting session then you are right! We have now started our new pattern of holding Yearly Meeting sessions, which means that following our May 2026 session we are also meeting in July and November 2026. In 2027 we will meet in February, May, July and November.
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QWRC 17-19 April 2026
12 May 2026
Quaker World Relations Committee (QWRC) held its residential meeting in Swarthmoor Hall.
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Investments Update
12 May 2026
BYM Trustee Investments Update
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QPSWCC 20-22 March 2026
27 April 2026
Quaker Peace & Social Witness Central Committee (QPSWCC) met for its annual residential meeting at Swarthmoor Hall. They discussed Quaker action for peace, protest rights and responding to hatred and division in society.