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Working with Meeting for Sufferings

Updated 18 April 2025

The Meeting for Sufferings agenda is planned by Meeting for Sufferings Arrangements Group, usually about a month before each meeting. This guidance on process and timing aims to help ensure that Meeting for Sufferings can deal with minutes effectively.

Visit the Library

Updated 5 June 2025

Welcome to the Library of the Society of Friends. Here you will find all the information you need to visit the Library and use our collections. Anyone wishing to use any of our collections should now make an appointment in advance, please see below for instructions on how to do so.

Information on visiting the Library

Employment and volunteering

Updated 4 June 2025

Quaker Life supports Quaker communities in best practices when engaging employees and volunteers. We give advice and guidance and provide access to relevant sources of information.

Papers and minutes

Updated 20 June 2025

This page contains papers for the next meeting. It also provides links to minutes and papers for recent meetings.

Meeting for Sufferings papers and minutes

Engaging with the 2015 general election

Updated 8 January 2016

The words of the Quaker election guide had great resonance for us. In the months before the election we explored how we might raise awareness, stimulate debate, and educate ourselves and others about important issues.

Engaging with the 2015 general election

Taking action in Paris at COP21

Updated 19 January 2016

We're now facing a climate crisis. I felt it was important to go to Paris because I feared that the climate negotiations (or COP21) would not be sufficient to meet this crisis. I've been led to take action on climate change because it's an issue so inextricably linked to other things I care about, like challenging militarism and upholding refugee and asylum seeker rights.

Taking action in Paris at COP21

Committee Handbook

Updated 23 October 2024

The BYM Committee Handbook is an essential resource for any member of a BYM committee. Paper copies are not currently available but the full handbook is available on this page.

Committee Handbook

Quakers bring worship to protests against oil drilling in Sussex

Updated 9 November 2017

In Quaker Week 2017 Louise Williamson helped unite protesters and Quakers in worship outside the gates of a new oil extraction site.

Quakers bring worship to protests against oil drilling in Sussex

Quaker Bolivia Link

Updated 2 December 2024

The purpose of Quaker Bolivia Link (QBL) is to fund and oversee the implementation of small community­initiated projects. These aim to improve the quality of life of impoverished indigenous people in Bolivia through community empowerment and the promotion of sustainable livelihoods. The current geographical focus is on marginalised rural Aymara communities in the Department of La Paz. Projects are related to the supply of clean water and to food security. These projects are delivered by Fundación Quaker Bolivia Link, a Bolivian charity managed by local Quakers. There is a sister fundraising charity in the United States of America. A formal cooperation agreement establishes the roles and relationship of the 3 parts of QBL.

Quaker Bolivia Link