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+BYM Trustees
+  COVID: 
+    80% of QC staff and 50% of FH staff furloughed
+
+    Emphasis of systematic funding growth for the long term, not a
+    single crisis appeal
+
+    [QLCC Clerk letter about LDW in The Friend]
+
+    LDW and Hub rollout postponed
+
+    Online activities improve accessability for some, but make it
+    harder/impossible for others.  Are we (SESAM) looking at
+    identifying and helping those who lack either the skills or the
+    hardware to participate?
+
+The one time we had a difficult decision, the lack of draft minute
+actually being read did not work well.
+
+YM:
+
+  There will be an abbreviated virtual YM on the afternoon of 15
+  September, two one-hour sessions.  Attendance open with early notice
+  required, capped at 1000.
+
+    Some necessary business, some shared worship...
+
+    Sufferings to be empowered to do some required business between
+    then and the YM in 2021.
+
+  YMG will, God willing, be held in summer 2021 in Bath.
+
+Small groups:
+
+  Some AMs have had LM-level Meetings for Worship as well as AM-level
+  AM for Worship for Business has had larger attendance in many cases
+  Some looking to continue some AMs/AM business online 'after COVID'
+  Some form of go-around or after-word is happening in some places
+  People with mobility issues found regular attendance to be very welcome
+  Weekly Epilogue for one AM
+  Some regularly attending by 'phone, that works
+  Questions about hybrid meetings 'after COVID' (also called 'blended meetings')
+
+   ["Ellie - trustee": I have been to a blended memorial before -
+   happy to pick up separartely if useful. 07eharding@gmail.com It was
+   held at Liverpool meeting, so their elders might be worth reaching
+   out to as well.]
+
+  "Is it really silence if there could be noise": Leaving people
+  unmuted unless there's a lot of background noise... [Anna Sharman]
+
+  Some problems:
+   "It's difficult to reach out to new people"
+   A few people have pushed back on the concept as unQuakerly...
+   Technology and/or financial issues exclude some people
+   One eldering problem has arisen, resulting in lack of unity on the
+    value of the online meetings...
+   Where no AM, an LM that chose not to meet leaves the members who
+    would like to out in the cold