Yearly Meeting is organised and run by Quakers. Please consider offering your time to help the delivery of Yearly Meeting and including Children and Young People's Programmes.
If you are interested in the wider world of Quaker service, please visit our Give time area for year-round opportunities.
We are committed to safer recruitment process, if this is relevant to a role you'll find more information in the description as the roles are publicised.
Offer to serve as a doorkeeper or microphone steward
For all Yearly Meeting sessions (including the one day ones) we have the following volunteering opportunities
Doorkeepers and microphone stewards
- Are you coming to Yearly Meeting onsite? Do you want to give service, but you don't want to miss Yearly Meeting in session? The following roles contribute to the smooth running of the event, working in the background to ensure that the clerks are supported. You will need to be in position 20 minutes before the sessions start.
- Microphone stewards: during open worship, you will wait for the elders to call Friends who rise to minister. During session, you will listen for the clerk to call you to pass the microphone to a specific Friend. You will be required to be unobtrusive whilst the speaker has the microphone.
- Doorkeepers: you will facilitate the entry of people into the meeting room, this includes welcoming them and holding back latecomers until suitable breaks in the proceedings.
- Offer service as a doorkeeper or microphone steward
Welcome hosts
- We will be needing some volunteers to arrive a little early to welcome Friends and signpost as needed. Further information will be available by 30 May.
Volunteer on Children's and Young People's Programmes
- For more information about volunteering at future national events for children and young people, see volunteer at children's events.
For longer (multi-day) Yearly Meeting sessions we will also need the following volunteers. These will next be needed in July 2027.
Welcome and pastoral support
- The next opportunity to serve as a welcome and pastoral support volunteer will be at Yearly Meeting Gathering in July 2027.
- Are you someone other people say is good at listening? Can you respect and maintain confidentiality and healthy boundaries? Are you friendly, welcoming, a team player? If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you! Volunteering can be a wonderful way to meet new people and nurture your community.
- We are committed to safer recruitment process, and this means you will need references and a Basic DBS, through the Due Diligence Checking service.
- For more information, please see the YM pastoral support role outline and Expectations and support for role holders.
Community hub
- The next opportunity to serve as a community hub volunteer will be at Yearly Meeting Gathering in July 2027.
- Are you someone who is good at helping people to feel included, supported, and at ease? Then the community hub is the perfect opportunity to put your skills into action. The hub is a space for Friends attending Yearly Meeting for the first time and those who want to meet with others and chat. You will need to be attending at Friends House to help with this.
- For more information, please see the Community host volunteer role outline (PDF)