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+Vibrancy -- Rachel Matthews, Vibrancy in Meetings Programme
+Coordinator
+
+  Faith in the Future a starting point for Meetings?
+  Support local meetings to thrive - "full of life"
+
+  Vibrancy Steering Group -- membership?
+
+  Get in touch with local development worker...
+
+  http://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/pages/vibrancy_in_meetings.html
+
+  Four pilot 'local development workers' in Devon, Cornwall and West
+  Somerset; The North West; Wales and Southern Marches; Sussex, Surrey
+  and Kent.
+
+Visit to PYM and B(alt...)YM by BYM Clerk and Recording Clerk
+  "The joyful burden of love" Thomas Kelly, via BaYM Epistle
+
+   PYM -- Financial crunch -> "we can't go on the same way" -> laid
+   down _all_ central committees, replaced with a framework for
+   time-limited efforts, called 'Collaboratives' and 'Sprints'
+
+   Care groups for e.g. BYM Clerk
+
+   Two widespread issues/dimensions of concern and effort
+
+     * Diversity, a.k.a. _Undoing Racism_, not just as a national
+       issue, but an issue for Quaker meetings themselves
+
+     * Young adult friends - Epistle from YAF at PYM --
+       http://www.pym.org/pym-young-adult-friends-epistle-2016/
+
+       PYM YAF -- anger and frustration - creating structures outside
+       the 'official' ones
+
+QPSW Annual report: MfS 2016 10 07 in
+   http://www.quaker.org.uk/documents/mfs-october-agenda-papers-package-2016-v1
+
+   Booklets on the New Economy:  linked from
+   http://www.quaker.org.uk/our-work/economic-justice/new-economy
+
+   "Movement building" -- anticipated as a major topic at YMG2017
+
+   EAPPI -- "EAPPI is an international World Council of Churches
+   programme. EAPPI UK/Ireland is a joint project of church partners,
+   implemented by QPSW" The situation is dire, under constant review,
+   with careful risk management processes.  "The problems [EAAPI] are
+   having is a sign that it's successful."
+
+   Refugees: Legacy funding for one-year post from December, to
+   identify appropriate national-level work that is best _for us_.
+   Liaison with Quaker Asylum and Refugee Network (QARN).  Some actual
+   actions, maybe, but mostly planning/reporting.
+
+Living out our faith (call for equality): Q3 - how Meeting for
+Sufferings balances and prioritises different parts of the work we are
+called to do.
+
+  Diversity -- equal to what?  What counts as enough (young people,
+  asian/black/... people)
+
+  "[We] can't do fine detail with a broad brush"
+
+  We should admit that we don't, and can't, do prioritisation
+
+  "'How come the Methodists can respond to things so much more quickly
+    than we can'"
+
+  Should we only commit central effort to things which are _not_
+  alreadly well addressed elsewhere, which _are_ pretty much uniquely
+  _Quaker_ either in nature or in response?
+
+Good Energy has "a special tariff for Quaker meeting houses to use
+100% renewable energy."
+
+Ammerdown Invitation:  See http://rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/
+
+GM Scotland minute raises important issues -- Truth and integrity the
+key point.  The fact that this funding for the introduction of cadet
+forces bypasses Scottish oversight of education in Scotland is
+particularly concerning (and may come as news to AM as it did to me),
+because it means that there's no straightforward way to ask the
+Scottish government/parliament for equal time, as it were.
+
+Trustees: Gold ??papers??
+(MfS also ??)
+