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Epistle
Final minutes
Minutes of Yearly Meeting 2018
Introductions
Videos
From Friday evening: Assistant Clerk Clare Scott Booth introduce Yearly Meeting Arrangements Committee and its thinking around Yearly Meeting 2018 (on Youtube).
From Friday evening: Ursula Fuller introduces the Quaker Stewardship Committee report.
From Friday evening: Anne Ullathorne introduces the report from Meeting for Sufferings. Closed captions not edited yet.
From Saturday: 'Is it time to revise our book of discipline?' With Clare Scott Booth, Lesley Richards and Adwoa Bittle.
From Sunday morning: Nick Perks of the Book of Discipline Revision Group. Closed captions not edited yet.
From Monday morning's session: Cliodhna Mulhern, Lancashire Central And North AM and Haifa Rashed, Young Friends General Meeting. Closed captions not edited yet.
Ingrid Greenhow introduces Trustees' annual report and financial statement with Peter Ullathorne.
Session 1
- Clare Scott-Booth (PDF)
- Ursula Fuller: Quaker Stewardship Committee (PDF)
- Anne Ullathorne: Meeting for Sufferings (PDF)
Session 2
Is it time to revise Quaker faith & practice, our book of discipline?
- Agenda Committee introduction by Clare Scott Booth (PDF)
- Lesley Richards (PDF)
- Slides from Lesley Richard's introduction (PPT)
- Slides from shuffle break (PPT)
- Adwoa Bittle (PDF)Lectures
Swarthmore Lecture
The Swarthmore Lecture is officially part of Yearly Meeting, but is hosted on the Woodbrooke website.
Salter Lecture
In 'Bearing witness or bearing whiteness?' Diana Jeater examines the complex historical relationship between Britain, Quakers and Africans. The Salter Lecture is not formally a part of Yearly Meeting, but is a popular, public event held at the beginning of each Yearly Meeting weekend. It is arranged by the Quaker Socialist Society. With Mick Langford and Tim Gee. More information about the Quaker Socialist Society can be found at www.quakersocialists.uk.
Documents in advance
More documents will be added to supplement Documents in advance during Yearly Meeting. These include minutes and reports.
- Outline timetable (PDF)
- Events listing (PDF)
- Preparing for Yearly Meeting 2018 (PDF)
- Agenda and notes (PDF)
- Schedule of nominations (PDF)
- Epistles and testimonies (PDF)
- Trustees' annual report, including financial statements for the year ending December 2017 (PDF)
- Report from Friends Trust Limited (PDF). See 3.3 of Agenda and notes.
- Letter of greeting from Friends World Committee for Consultation
- Letter of greeting from FWCC Europe and Middle East Section
- Tabular statement 2017 (PDF)