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+*Committee on Clerks review*
+
+ Take the lessons/ideas that came from the review of Central
+ Nominations into the ConC.
+
+ [DS has seen the CN review report?]
+
+*Yearly Meeting 2018 -- report from the Clerk*
+
+ 2020 Gathering will be in Bath 1--8 August
+
+ Most of the time to deciding on revising the BoD
+   * Theological differences
+   * Structural proposal, wrt CG [principles in book and guidelines
+                                  e.g. online]
+   * Trustees' report (highlight of 2017?!)
+
+ Deadlines for JYM _next week_, other youth programmes mid-March
+
+ There will be registration again
+
+*Report from BYM Sustainability Group*
+
+  Near the beginning of their 2nd 3-year 'term'
+
+  Struggling a bit to get the resourcing they think they need
+
+  Uptake of the sustainability concern is very uneven across the YM --
+  YM said we need to change in the 2011 Canterbury Commitment [1], but
+  that hasn't always translated into action
+
+  Sufferings appointed a Review Group, (now) due to report in time for
+  April MfS
+
+  G. K. Chesterton:
+
+   “I tell you naught for your comfort, 
+    Yea, naught for your desire, 
+    Save that the sky grows darker yet 
+    And the sea rises higher.”
+
+[1] http://www.quaker.org.uk/documents/minute-36-leaflet-2011
+
+*Quaker Life CC report*
+
+  A lot of changes, in CC and in central Staff
+
+  A new (no longer draft) Strategy
+
+    Staff say existing work all fits
+
+    QLCC mindful that membership is declining, and aging
+      What _can_ we do?  Is what we are trying to do working?
+
+    Organised in terms of OFitF
+
+    Priority to 1 (MfW), 2 (Community), 6 (Visibility)
+
+  New "Quake!" e-newsletter: [ref coming]
+
+  1330 House group Hilda Clark 1 [time, participation, questions]
+  1445 back to plenary
+-----[House Groups on QLCC report]-----
+Carol Rakoby & Gill Reid facilitating
+ plus usual suspects, one or two changes
+[membership, meetings for learning, [afterword]] 
+----------QLCC report revisited--------
+Flexible membership - email JBB about FWCC c'ttee
+
+[?email to Clerk? -- concerned at your (2nd meeting in a row)
+ appearing to rebuke someone for their ministry.  Not my understanding
+ of a Clerk's job]
+
+Are we slaves to our buildings?
+
+Welcoming isn't enough -- without depth, people won't come back
+ Qualitative indicators
+