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 wide 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.
We are currently accepting offers to serve on the welcome and pastoral support team. For other roles, please come back here in January.
Welcome and pastoral support
- 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.
- Offer your service as a pastoral support volunteer.
Community hub
- 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.
- Open for offers from January 2026
Doorkeepers and microphone stewards
- Are you coming to Yearly Meeting in Friends House? 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 Large Meeting House, this includes welcoming them and holding back latecomers until suitable breaks in the proceedings.
- Open for offers from January 2026
Reviewing children and young people's programmes
- Do you enjoy hearing about people's experiences? Are you good at highlighting what's gone well and identifying areas for development? Children and young people are an integral part of Yearly Meeting, and each year we offer an opportunity for someone independent to summarise the experience of participants and team members. You would play a part in ensuring that these events continue to make a difference to the lives of young Quakers. You will be sent copies of the feedback forms which you will review against the aims of the event. The report is then sent to the committee that oversees the programme. Previous reviewers have commented that reading about the experiences of participants is a rewarding opportunity.
- You will need to be available to complete this task at some point between 10 and 27 May 2026.
- Open for offers from January 2026
Volunteer on Children's and Young People's Programmes
- The deadline for applying to volunteer with these programmes was 1 December 2025. For more information about volunteering at future national events for children and young people, see volunteer at children's events.
Yearly Meeting Nominating Group
- Can you see the spark of potential in others? Do you enjoy connecting with Friends?
- If you are curious about this interesting and unique service with Yearly Meeting Nominating Group, we would love to hear from you!
- Open for nominations from January 2026
Committee to Examine Minutes
- Yearly Meeting will nominate and appoint Friends to serve on the Committee to Examine Minutes. This operates during Yearly Meeting and is responsible on a rota basis for checking the minutes at the close of each session and correcting any slight inaccuracies. Friends can be nominated to this committee in advance of Yearly Meeting. Friends must be attending Yearly Meeting (in person or online) to serve and have access to a computer and be comfortable with working with an online document. The deadline for nominations is 17.00 on Thursday 30 April. If we receive nominations for more than ten Friends, Yearly Meeting Arrangements Committee will determine the names to be brought before Yearly Meeting on Friday 1 May.
- Open for nominations from January 2026