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+*Court and Prison Register*
+
+[York meeting attender] had a contract with the Church Commissioners
+cancelled mid-way through for "attending Quaker worship and refused to
+give any assurance that she would cease to do so"
+
+Change name to "Record of Sufferings" and expand the scope?  We'll
+come back to that, some hard boundary questions...
+
+*Diversity*
+
+  "Sometimes [I don't] feel at home among Friends, but I do feel at
+   home in Meeting for Worship"
+
+  1) Does anybody have a claim on the universal / baseline?
+
+  2) Do Quakers think that everyone should aspire to become middle
+     class by middle age?
+
+  3) What makes for a welcoming welcome?
+
+  Overall, what are the weaknesses inherent in my [privileged] position?
+  [I.e. what do I have to _gain_ from diversity?]
+
+----------------
+[Does an unselfconscious internal question along the lines of "would I
+like to be friends with this person" get in the way of an effective
+welcome?]
+----------------
+*Vibrancy*
+
+See papers for lengthy report, of little interest to us IMO
+
+Median size (wrt Members) of LMs down from 24 -> 18 over last 10 years
+OTOH More LMs have childrens' meetings
+     16 Younger Friends groups
+
+Goal is to reinvigorate Quakerism
+
+Trustees: How to take forward the benefits:
+
+  "How best [can] the essence of the vibrancy work help us achieve
+   the priorities that we have identified towards 'A simple church
+   supported by a simple charity to re-invigorate Quakerism'. We have
+   to find an affordable, sustainable and spirit-led solution for the
+   whole of the yearly meeting and not only in the pilot areas."
+
+Some interest in the idea that not all Central-Managed Work has to be
+managed by someone actually in the centre (London or, wrt Woodbrooke,
+Birmingham).
+
+[Option 4 vs option 5 as crisis team or towards a new normal?  Compare
+aid charities which focus on helping after the earthquake/crop
+failure/flood to rebuild the schools/provide food and seed corn/dry
+things out and rebuild and once they've done that go home with aid
+charities which fund agricultural development workers and scholarships
+for medical school]
+
+[Individual VW staff need some modest amount of discretionary
+spending]
+
+[Risk register: lack of a transmissable Quaker culture
+    Woodbrooke: big drop in Quaker attendance at Woodbrooke events]