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31 "What's being done already?" 31 "What's being done already?"
32 "Looking forward": what more are we being called to do? 32 "Looking forward": what more are we being called to do?
33 33
34 Group 3 Elaine 34 Group 3 Elaine
35 *Doing now* 35 *Doing now*
36 "Just transition" ['just' as in 'justice'] 36 "Just transition" ['just' as in 'justice'] [breaking out of the bubble?] [1]
37 Co-ordination 37 Co-ordination
38 Self-awareness 38 Self-awareness
39 [breaking out of the bubble?]
40 Leverage our privilege 39 Leverage our privilege
41 "... go on the defensive" 40 "... go on the defensive"
42 Younger friends: veg[an|itarian], cycle/walk by default 41 Younger friends: veg[an|itarian], cycle/walk by default
43 Cultural shift [c.f. changing community norms] 42 Cultural shift [c.f. changing community norms]
44 Buses on a Sunday! 43 Buses on a Sunday!
46 45
47 *Looking forward* 46 *Looking forward*
48 small actions vs. despair 47 small actions vs. despair
49 _Our_ particular angle: faith basis, ref. Eden Grace 48 _Our_ particular angle: faith basis, ref. Eden Grace
50 Central priority [set by PP?] is on the political [Gordon Benson] 49 Central priority [set by PP?] is on the political [Gordon Benson]
50
51 Trees came up a lot
52 Quaker burial ground?
53
54 *Trustees*
55 "Meeting-centred support" [2] is the new buzz phrase, 'vibrancy' is no
56 longer mentioned.
57
58 Woodbrooke: numbers down over several years. Renew purpose to meet
59 friends and peoples needs. Survey done: Woodbrooke needs to come to
60 Friends, and too expensive (c.f. someone from Friends House 'for
61 free'). Vibrancy pilot. Opportunity for renewal. JW Rowntree
62 "Woodbrooke should not be a privilege for the rich".
63
64 Simpler meetings: 500+ Friends involved in governance/decision-making
65 about centrally-funded work. Free up that effort to do other things.
66 Be sustainable. Slow, lack of accountability. Risk of shrinking:
67 discernment not reflecting the breadth of the YM.
68 [So, _not_ the leadings of the spirit]
69
70 ['Experiment' of video "had its challenges": Good for trustees, hard
71 on the person in scotland]
72
73 *Quaker Stewardship Committee*
74 [remit]
75
76 "We are a bottom-up organisation, and I don't know of any other" [Win
77 Sutton]
78
79 "The bottom _is_ the top" [Ursula Fuller, QSC Clerk]
80
81 "Yearly Meeting decisions are taken with care because they are
82 understood to be, as a matter of our faith, decisions by _all_ of
83 us." [ditto]
84
85 *Safeguarding*
86
87 We've been asked by the English inquiry on this for answers to a
88 detailed questionaire from their sub-investigation into "child
89 protection in religious organisations and settings in England and
90 Wales".
91
92 *Assisted dying*
93
94 This has come around again from several English AMs. Attempted to
95 focus on what we _as Quakers_ have to say. My memory of our
96 experience in Scotland is that we are unlikely to reach unity on the
97 question, but might that in itself may be a worthwhile contribution?
98
99 "Not reaching unity is not a failure" [PP]
100
101 MfS session reflected a wide range of positions.
102
103 Studied neutrality is also a possibility [3].
104
105 [1] http://www.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/publication/climate-change-and-the-just-transition-a-guide-for-investor-action/
106 [2] https://quaker.org.uk/our-organisation/support-for-meetings/meeting-centred-support
107 [3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3505400/