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| date | Tue, 17 Jan 2017 03:55:40 -0500 |
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| 1 Finance report -- overall summary: same deficit as last year, about | |
| 2 750,000GBP, out of 11MGBP. A further 2MGBP is available from 'legacy | |
| 3 funding' for new projects. The Hospitality Company represents nearly | |
| 4 1/2 of centrally-funded staff, but turns a profit for us as a whole, | |
| 5 which goes for our 'charitable work'. | |
| 6 | |
| 7 QCEA revised its constitutional arrangements. What is our role in | |
| 8 Europe as Brexit unrolls? Our commitment is to Europe as a community, | |
| 9 not an institution. Our calling is to work for peace in Europe as | |
| 10 elsewhere. | |
| 11 | |
| 12 We are by far the largest YM in Europe, and the others want (and need) | |
| 13 it to continue. | |
| 14 | |
| 15 Governance structure: 'General assembly' replaces 'Council', still | |
| 16 representative assembly of all participating YMs. Strategic | |
| 17 direction, spiritual guidance. Executive Committee | |
| 18 established, as-it-were Board of Directors/Trustees. Appoint | |
| 19 Director, manage resources in keeping with strategic direction. | |
| 20 | |
| 21 Programme: Primary focus on peace, new appointment to lead this. | |
| 22 Second focus on human rights. Quaker House (owned by BYM) enables | |
| 23 these well, to focus less on campaigning, more on quiet diplomacy: | |
| 24 intervening carefully on an individual/small group off-the-record | |
| 25 exchanges, on the QUNO model. "Going where only Quakers, as a peace | |
| 26 church, can go.". | |
| 27 | |
| 28 Accountability/reporting back. More representation, on both bodies, | |
| 29 more reporting. | |
| 30 | |
| 31 _Eight_ reports and Epistles from other European YMs! | |
| 32 ---------- | |
| 33 Cornwall AM Decriminalisation | |
| 34 | |
| 35 Lots of feedback, but no unity, either among AMs or at MfS. In | |
| 36 particular, no instruction for any central action in aid of Cornwall's | |
| 37 hope that this consultation "will lead to BYM agreeing to support | |
| 38 decriminalisation and issuing a statement to that effect". | |
| 39 | |
| 40 ---------- | |
| 41 BoD RPG: Will now _recommend_ a new BoD, because CG parts are 'not fit | |
| 42 for purpose'. This would come to YM in 2018. | |
| 43 | |
| 44 Two aspects of CG part -- principles and background on the | |
| 45 one hand, and details of operational processes -- the first in The | |
| 46 Book, the rest in 'handbooks', responsiblity for which should be | |
| 47 delegated to MfS. | |
| 48 | |
| 49 (Questionnaire for office holders?) | |
| 50 | |
| 51 Reading QF&P project very successful, feedback request wrt "What have | |
| 52 you learned?" coming soon. | |
| 53 | |
| 54 Vision for a Criminal Justice System | |
| 55 | |
| 56 Consultative process, _lots_ of feedback, see MfS website | |
| 57 ---------- | |
| 58 Quaker Life report -- Elephant in the room! | |
| 59 | |
| 60 Pastoral and spiritual care of mobile younger friends/isolated friends | |
| 61 FWCC |