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+Our Area Meetings today 
+
+TTIP opposition
+
+  Unlikely to receive much effort from the centre, too much
+  else going on
+
+Trustees: Treasurer
+
+More action requires more money
+
+Good legacy income, best-ever income from Hospitality
+
+Vibrancy funding: 675K pilot over 3.5 years, 3 or 4 officers managed
+from Woodbrooke
+
+Tax Justice: [not much we can do]
+
+Trustees: Minutes
+
+Numbers attending Yearly Meeting
+  Will come to us in February
+  Health and Safety (mostly about Gathering), but in principle F&P
+  issue
+
+Housing Threshing event, ref. Yearly Meeting 2015, Alastair Cameron,
+towards establishing an ethical landlords' association.
+
+[3.27,28 in BoD -- reviewed and threshed -- please consider in
+advance]
+
+AM/Home groups feedback/summary
+ Weariness/sadness around the issue of AMe
+
+ "Business method not working quite right"
+
+ Weighty Friends "creamed off" into Trustees
+ ------
+ Some form of review process common
+ Re-understanding relationships (up, down, sideways)
+
+ Northumbria model: [Material forthcoming]
+
+ Fellowship (food, hospitality)
+
+ Make the jobs feel possible
+
+ More teaching [?]
+==============
+Membership is of _BYM_
+
+Everything shold be "reflected-upon practice"
+
+Fragility of links, LM <-> AM, AM <-> Sufferings/YM
+
+If AMe didn't exist, [why] would we have to invent it?