23.48
*Court and Prison Register*

[York meeting attender] had a contract with the Church Commissioners
cancelled mid-way through for "attending Quaker worship and refused to
give any assurance that she would cease to do so"

Change name to "Record of Sufferings" and expand the scope?  We'll
come back to that, some hard boundary questions...

*Diversity*

  "Sometimes [I don't] feel at home among Friends, but I do feel at
   home in Meeting for Worship"

  1) Does anybody have a claim on the universal / baseline?

  2) Do Quakers think that everyone should aspire to become middle
     class by middle age?

  3) What makes for a welcoming welcome?

  Overall, what are the weaknesses inherent in my [privileged] position?
  [I.e. what do I have to _gain_ from diversity?]

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[Does an unselfconscious internal question along the lines of "would I
like to be friends with this person" get in the way of an effective
welcome?]
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*Vibrancy*

See papers for lengthy report, of little interest to us IMO

Median size (wrt Members) of LMs down from 24 -> 18 over last 10 years
OTOH More LMs have childrens' meetings
     16 Younger Friends groups

Goal is to reinvigorate Quakerism

Trustees: How to take forward the benefits:

  "How best [can] the essence of the vibrancy work help us achieve
   the priorities that we have identified towards 'A simple church
   supported by a simple charity to re-invigorate Quakerism'. We have
   to find an affordable, sustainable and spirit-led solution for the
   whole of the yearly meeting and not only in the pilot areas."

Some interest in the idea that not all Central-Managed Work has to be
managed by someone actually in the centre (London or, wrt Woodbrooke,
Birmingham).

[Option 4 vs option 5 as crisis team or towards a new normal?  Compare
aid charities which focus on helping after the earthquake/crop
failure/flood to rebuild the schools/provide food and seed corn/dry
things out and rebuild and once they've done that go home with aid
charities which fund agricultural development workers and scholarships
for medical school]

[Individual VW staff need some modest amount of discretionary
spending]

[Risk register: lack of a transmissable Quaker culture
    Woodbrooke: big drop in Quaker attendance at Woodbrooke events]