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1 *QLCC report*
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3 Gender diversity: five personal statements, very powerful
4 Consultation period ending soon
5
6 [Very brief report, some concern about this]
7
8 *QPSWCC report*
9
10 Four topics in report: Sanctuary Everywhere, Climate Emergency,
11 Peace Education and Conciliation (Turning the Tide)
12
13 Strategic review underway
14
15 Presentation focussed on Climate Justice & COP26
16 "Zero-carbon Britain" course and resource were mentioned [1]
17 "Ecological footprint" ditto [2]
18
19 [_very_ brief]
20
21 Will 'witness' be included in the remit of "local development workers"?
22
23 *QWRC report*
24
25 Europe and Middle East is around 10% of world Friends (377K),
26 Africa more than half.
27
28 Intervisitation?
29
30 *QCCIR report*
31
32 Meeting in Limerick very successful
33
34 CTE catastrophe: we've been empty-chaired over the same-sex
35 marriage issue, details in CIRcular [3] and press statements [4]
36 Re-affirming the legitimacy of our presence in the ecumenical movement
37 Rejecting the relevance of an individual's sexuality in making appointments
38 We're in it for the long haul
39
40 *Has the word 'overseer' had its day?'
41
42 Maybe yes, maybe no...
43
44 *Central Nominations*
45
46 A larger single body (a "new Central Nominations Committee") with
47 flexible sub-structure replacing two separate bodies, nominating:
48
49 Clerks of YM and MfS
50
51 Other regular central roles: No central public list of posts for which the
52 existing or new groups are responsible exists, but here's a
53 partial list, being those appointed at YM in May 2019 (with actual
54 numbers):
55
56 Britain Yearly Meeting Trustees (6)
57 Yearly Meeting Agenda Committee (5)
58 Yearly Meeting Arrangements Committee (3)
59 Yearly Meeting Elders (9)
60 Yearly Meeting Epistle Drafting Committee (6)
61 Quaker Stewardship Committee (5)
62 Yearly Meeting Agenda Committee (3)
63 Yearly Meeting Pastoral Care Group (1)
64 Yearly Meeting Publications Group for Quaker faith & practice (1)
65
66 _Ad-hoc_ roles, e.g. review groups (at least 1 or 2 small ones per
67 year) and occasionally big (Review of Yearly Meeting, coming up,
68 with 4 _ex officio_ members and 4 to be nominated) to very big
69 (Book of Discipline Revision, 20 members@@@)
70
71 *Budget*
72
73 5 people, giving 8,000GBP between them, contribute 30% of the YM
74 Treasurer's home Area Meeting income
75
76 Deficit, and for some years forward, so reserves will be lowered
77 over the coming years
78
79 [1] https://www.cat.org.uk/info-resources/zero-carbon-britain/
80 [2] https://www.footprintnetwork.org/our-work/ecological-footprint/
81 [3] https://www.quaker.org.uk/documents/circular-2019-12
82 [4] https://www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/news/churches-plan-for-new-president-falters-because-of-same-sex-marriage
83
84 *Sustainability*
85
86 *Review of Yearly Meeting*
87
88 Sustainability; Timing/Length/Cost; Accessibility to structures by
89 under-represented groups
90
91 Two-stage process
92