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author Henry Thompson <ht@markup.co.uk>
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1 *Report from the RC on tabular statement*
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3 All data is pre-pandemic...
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5 Graph of the whole trajectory of membership
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6 Down by more than half by our peak in the mid-20th century, 12.5K in
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7 2019.
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9 Net loss of 200 members for the year, to a total of 12,498.
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11 470 local meetings, so
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13 One new member net in every local meeting next year would stop the fall.
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15 Since 2009:
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16 22% of local meetings have grown by 10% or more
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17 54% of local meetings have shrunk by 10% or more
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19 10% of our Meetings have over 50 members , and account for about 1/3
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20 of our membership
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22 Small meetings are more likely to be growing than large meetings
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24 More than half the meetings which are losing membership are largish --
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25 20+ members
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27 The national patterns are often seen within individual Area Meetings
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28 [true for SESAM, I think]
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30 "One in 20 Quakers have to be a Treasurer"
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32 See Tabular Statement summary at https://quaker-prod.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/store/5b7910074687ac2797f82da7f1305c9a9eab9866a3fbea89f3fc47f35d5e
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34 However, don't forget "regression to the mean"
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36 Effect of GDPR-induced culling? SESAM shows _twice_ as many
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37 'terminations' as deaths between 2009 and 2019, in big contrast to the
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38 other Scottish AMs. BYM numbers are 50% more deaths than
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39 terminations.
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41 *Trustees*
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43 35 voluntary redundancies, result no non-voluntary were needed. The
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44 vast majority were from the Quiet Company, which has been hard-hit.
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46 *Reflections on the past year*
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48 There's a website at FWCC that offers online Meetings for Worship
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49 around the world, mostly but not entirely from Europe and the US:
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51 http://fwcc.world/kinds-of-friends/online-worship
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53 Quaker Stewardship C'ttee Training hosting a Blended Meeting
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54 discussion for AM Trustees on Thursday.