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+*Meeting for Sufferings*
+
+6 April 2019
+
+Henry S. Thompson, SE Scotland AM representative
+
+All the papers for the meeting are available online at
+
+  https://www.quaker.org.uk/documents/mfs-2019-04-agenda--papers-package
+
+The minutes and other follow-up material are available from
+
+  https://www.quaker.org.uk/documents/mfs-2019-04-follow-up-packagev4
+
+Not really much to report from this meeting.
+
+The major item of interest was a summary of the external review of the
+Vibrancy project, and Trustees' considerations of whether and if so how
+it might be continued.
+
+The goal of the Vibrancy project is to "reinvigorate Quakerism":
+   https://www.quaker.org.uk/our-organisation/support-for-meetings/vibrancy-in-meetings
+
+The problem: Median size (wrt Members) of LMs down from 24 -> 18 over
+last 10 years
+
+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).
+
+*Report from Trustees*
+
+Apparently we have, or rather Trustees have, a Risk Register. Two
+entries in it caught my attention:
+
+  * With respect to Britain Yearly Meeting as a whole: the "lack of a
+    transmissable Quaker culture";
+
+  * With respect to Woodbrooke: a recent big drop in Quaker attendance
+    at Woodbrook events.