C&P Register
Witness?
Arrest?
Uphold vs. condone?
Testing concern: how, before or after?
PP says _post-hoc_ is OK.

*Sustainability*
 "How might we be called to act next?"
  - Eldership
    "All creation was being set free to be true to itself" Eden Grace 2019
    "Right purpose, right use, right relationship" Ditto
  - Oversight
    Action depends on community, acting alone is too hard
     Enable and support us: changing community norms [wrt energy use]
     Economic growth vs. finite resources
  - Living Faithfully
    Think about energy _as part_ of a decision, not a retro-fit
    [Social pressure wrt holidays]
  - Right Ordering
    Wrt property: reporting currently focussed on Meeting-level, not individual
    Carbon emissions: focus on _saving_ (e.g. from switching to Good
    Energy) rather than _emitting_
  - Witness
    Economics and Sustainability sub-committee of QPSW
 Eco-church movement?
 Anger about narrowness "too neat, too tidy": impact needed on wider
  community (i.e. not "white, middle-class")

 Small groups
  "What's being done already?"
  "Looking forward": what more are we being called to do?

Group 3 Elaine
 *Doing now*
   "Just transition" ['just' as in 'justice'] [breaking out of the bubble?] [1]
       Co-ordination
   Self-awareness
   Leverage our privilege
   "... go on the defensive"
   Younger friends: veg[an|itarian], cycle/walk by default
     Cultural shift [c.f. changing community norms]
   Buses on a Sunday!
   Celebrate what we _are_ doing [ref. Geoffrey]

 *Looking forward*
  small actions vs. despair
  _Our_ particular angle: faith basis, ref. Eden Grace
  Central priority [set by PP?] is on the political [Gordon Benson]

Trees came up a lot
 Quaker burial ground?

*Trustees*
 "Meeting-centred support" [2] is the new buzz phrase, 'vibrancy' is no
 longer mentioned.

 Woodbrooke: numbers down over several years.  Renew purpose to meet
 friends and peoples needs.  Survey done: Woodbrooke needs to come to
 Friends, and too expensive (c.f. someone from Friends House 'for
 free').  Vibrancy pilot.  Opportunity for renewal.  JW Rowntree
 "Woodbrooke should not be a privilege for the rich".

 Simpler meetings: 500+ Friends involved in governance/decision-making
 about centrally-funded work.  Free up that effort to do other things.
 Be sustainable.  Slow, lack of accountability.  Risk of shrinking:
 discernment not reflecting the breadth of the YM.
 [So, _not_ the leadings of the spirit]

 ['Experiment' of video "had its challenges": Good for trustees, hard
  on the person in scotland]

*Quaker Stewardship Committee*
 [remit]

 "We are a bottom-up organisation, and I don't know of any other" [Win
   Sutton]

 "The bottom _is_ the top" [Ursula Fuller, QSC Clerk]

 "Yearly Meeting decisions are taken with care because they are
  understood to be, as a matter of our faith, decisions by _all_ of
  us." [ditto]

*Safeguarding*

We've been asked by the English inquiry on this for answers to a
detailed questionaire from their sub-investigation into "child
protection in religious organisations and settings in England and
Wales".  

*Assisted dying*

This has come around again from several English AMs.  Attempted to
focus on what we _as Quakers_ have to say.  My memory of our
experience in Scotland is that we are unlikely to reach unity on the
question, but might that in itself may be a worthwhile contribution?

"Not reaching unity is not a failure" [PP]

MfS session reflected a wide range of positions.

Studied neutrality is also a possibility [3].

We were usefully reminded that even _considering_ assisted dying is
[at least currently] very much a possibilty only to the privileged.

*Speaking out*

We were reminded that there is a policy governing "public statements
and comments" from, among others, Area Meetings.

[1] http://www.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/publication/climate-change-and-the-just-transition-a-guide-for-investor-action/
[2] https://quaker.org.uk/our-organisation/support-for-meetings/meeting-centred-support
[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3505400/