# HG changeset patch # User Henry Thompson # Date 1592140985 -3600 # Node ID b199b7145c408e393baddd72f6096579a3221e54 # Parent b237ed07ec98d2f4e2eeb5923f60edd22e9152f0 x diff -r b237ed07ec98 -r b199b7145c40 Sufferings/2020-06-06/notes.txt --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/Sufferings/2020-06-06/notes.txt Sun Jun 14 14:23:05 2020 +0100 @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +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 diff -r b237ed07ec98 -r b199b7145c40 Sufferings/2020-06-06/report.txt --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/Sufferings/2020-06-06/report.txt Sun Jun 14 14:23:05 2020 +0100 @@ -0,0 +1,104 @@ +*Meeting for Sufferings* + +6 June 2020 + +Henry S. Thompson, SE Scotland AM representative + +All the papers for the meeting are available online at + + https://www.quaker.org.uk/documents/mfs-2020-06-agenda--papers + +The minutes and other follow-up material are available from + + https://www.quaker.org.uk/documents/mfs-2020-06-follow-up-package + +*Cancellation of 2 April Meeting for Sufferings* + +The meeting scheduled for 2 April was cancelled. A letter including a +number of the reports that _would_ have been considered at that +meeting was circulated to members, and is available at + + https://www.quaker.org.uk/documents/information-members-mfs-april-2020 + +It contains a report from Trustees, an interim report from the Review +Group for Quaker Stewardship Committee and, perhaps most importantly, +*Britain Yearly Meeting and Woodbrooke Integrated Strategy for +Supporting Quaker Communities 2020-2025", produced by Quaker Life +Central Committee. It gives more detail than previously available +about the plans for the new approach to many of the structures and +activities of Britain Yearly Meeting. + +*BYM Trustees report* + + COVID: + 80% of the Quiet Company (responsible for running Friends House + and Swarthmore Hall) staff and 50% of Friends House staff have + been furloughed. + + COVID notwithstanding, the focus for fundraising going forward + will be on systematic funding growth for the long term, not a + single crisis appeal. + + Hiring of new Local Development Workers and the establishment of + the first regional Hub have been 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? + +*Yearly Meeting* + + 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. + + Yearly Meeting Gathering will, God willing, be held in summer 2021 in Bath. + +*Small group session* + + Some Area Meetings are looking to continue holding Area Meeting + online and/or doing some Area Meeting 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. + + One Area Meeting is hold a weekly online Epilogue. + + There were many questions about hybrid meetings 'after COVID' (also + called 'blended meetings') + + Ellie Harding reported that + + "I have been to a blended memorial before - happy to pick up + separately if useful. It was held at Liverpool meeting, so their + elders might be worth reaching out to as well." + + Anna Sharman asked + + "Is it really silence if there couldn't be noise?" + + Her online Meeting has experimented with leaving people unmuted + unless there's a lot of background noise... + + Some problems with online meetings that were mentioned: + + "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... + + In one case where there is no online Area Meeting, a Local Meeting + that chose not to meet online has left those members who _would_ + like to do so out in the cold