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1 Meeting for Sufferings 2018-11-23--2018-11-25 (residential, at Woodbrooke)
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3 [She's doing it again: she's making a procedural argument to put down
4 a concern from two people, arguing against that concern. It would
5 have been easy to allow for some more positive response.]
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7 [And again, wrt the YFGM rep contra registering fee-paying schools]
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9 Housekeeping occupied all of Friday evening
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13 QCCIR have been busy, with a very extensive research effort on "The
14 Changing Face of Faith" [1]. The first part of this was discussed at
15 a conference in March, there will be another in March 2019 to which
16 AMs are invited to send representatives: "Area Meetings are encouraged
17 to send representatives to share local experience and learn for
18 experience in other parts of the yearly Meeting."
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20 [1] http://www.quaker.org.uk/our-organisation/our-structures/quaker-committee-for-christian-and-interfaith-relations
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22 Framework of Eco Church awards [2] has been a useful organising tool
23 for some AMs, particularly but not necessarily in an ecumenical
24 context. But it's only England and Wales :-(
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26 [2] https://ecochurch.arocha.org.uk/
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28 "Quakers just get on and do what they say they're going to do"
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30 Sustainability efforts can drive ecumenical engagement rather than the
31 other way around (Bristol AM)
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33 Jocelyn B-B, QLCC: Historically, staff initiated and committee
34 endorsed. That's been changing over the last year, being more
35 proactive. QLCC is not Quaker Life Representative Council good for
36 the Reps, helps QLCC, _but_ there's a persistent theme: reporting back
37 is a depressing topic: AMs are not interested -- How do Sufferings
38 reps find _their_ task? Do we need to rethink this whole reporting
39 back thing?
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41 Use email to circulate Sufferings report? How many people read
42 Sesame?
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44 QPSW: _War School_, ref?
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46 QWRC: _Quakers and Climate Change around the World_ Video
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48 QWRC -> FWCC -> access to UN (Geneva and NYC)
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51 We have Co-Clerks for the BoD Revision!
52 Rosie Carnall, Sheffield and Balby AM
53 Catherine Brewer, Northumbria AM, Durham LM
54 Both birthright, involved with YFGM
55 [Andrew Williams <a.williams2@exeter.ac.uk>]
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57 Kelly 20.36
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59 Brilliant presentation by Ingrid Greenhow, Clerk to Trustees for just
60 a bit longer, and Paul Parker, Recording Clerk, on new strategic
61 priorities, BYM Trustees: see the diagram
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64 Clerk did not intend to pass on ConC Clerk's concerns???
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66 Clerk of Central Nominations told some hard truths about the
67 differences between the tasks of the two groups.
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69 So _neither_ committee's Clerk agrees with the key (MfS and YM)
70 recommendations.
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72 "Nominations is the holiest thing we do" [Elsie Dick]
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74 2,3,4 Could be from outside Trustees themselves?
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76 [Should not come back to us w/o Clerks of both CNC and ConC present as
77 we did with Sustainability group]
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79 We've done our jobs, taking care of BYM in its absence.
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82 We laid down the Sustainability Group, but Liz Birch did not go
83 quietly, in the best possible way.
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85 She raised again the elephant in the room: what does it actually mean
86 in concrete practical terms for YM to adopt a concern? Substitute
87 'AM' for 'YM' and you have something we've know we need to address, if
88 not how...
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90 "Are [we] ready to be held accountable on how [we] are working towards
91 sustainability?"
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94 Diversity survey
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96 QLCC Gender diversity paper
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