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+*Report from the RC on tabular statement*
+
+All data is pre-pandemic...
+
+Graph of the whole trajectory of membership
+Down by more than half by our peak in the mid-20th century, 12.5K in
+2019.
+
+Net loss of 200 members for the year, to a total of 12,498.
+
+470 local meetings, so
+
+One new member net in every local meeting next year would stop the fall.
+
+Since 2009:
+  22% of local meetings have grown by 10% or more 
+  54% of local meetings have shrunk by 10% or more
+
+10% of our Meetings have over 50 members , and account for about 1/3
+of our membership
+
+Small meetings are more likely to be growing than large meetings
+
+More than half the meetings which are losing membership are largish --
+20+ members
+
+The national patterns are often seen within individual Area Meetings
+[true for SESAM, I think]
+
+"One in 20 Quakers have to be a Treasurer"
+
+See Tabular Statement summary at https://quaker-prod.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/store/5b7910074687ac2797f82da7f1305c9a9eab9866a3fbea89f3fc47f35d5e
+
+However, don't forget "regression to the mean"
+
+Effect of GDPR-induced culling?  SESAM shows _twice_ as many
+'terminations' as deaths between 2009 and 2019, in big contrast to the
+other Scottish AMs.  BYM numbers are 50% more deaths than
+terminations.
+
+*Trustees*
+
+35 voluntary redundancies, result no non-voluntary were needed.  The
+vast majority were from the Quiet Company, which has been hard-hit.
+
+*Reflections on the past year*
+
+There's a website at FWCC that offers online Meetings for Worship
+around the world, mostly but not entirely from Europe and the US:
+
+  http://fwcc.world/kinds-of-friends/online-worship
+
+Quaker Stewardship C'ttee Training hosting a Blended Meeting
+discussion for AM Trustees on Thursday.