changeset 356:770d1724b680

tidying up the background
author Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
date Mon, 01 Apr 2024 13:18:48 +0100
parents fb26c48a880a
children e516458a4f69
files QiS/What_are_QiS.xml
diffstat 1 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/QiS/What_are_QiS.xml	Mon Apr 01 11:34:34 2024 +0100
+++ b/QiS/What_are_QiS.xml	Mon Apr 01 13:18:48 2024 +0100
@@ -179,7 +179,9 @@
 <p>Thanks to Jackie Noltingk, Erica Thomas and Lesley Richards for
 helpful answers to my questions, and to Kathryn Gulliver and Piers Voysey for sending
 me copies of their AM's governing documents.</p>
-<p>The General Meeting for Scotland (GM) mailing list were told
+<div>
+ <title>Mostly about QiS</title>
+ <p>The General Meeting for Scotland (GM) mailing list were told
 (2023-11-17), in regard to</p>
 <p>  "(1) The possibility of merging our existing 6 charities into a
    single body, Quakers in Scotland.</p>
@@ -212,14 +214,15 @@
 with only modest changes from the earlier draft.  I'll take it as
 definitive with respect to what we will have before us on 6 April.
 It hasn't changed much, if anything, of what I've found that makes me
-uneasy about agreeing to adopt it.</p>
-<p>More background: What do we already have as models for how charities
-and their trustees work.  I'm reasonably familiar with two examples,
-which guide my thinking in this matter.</p>
-<p>1. The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain, and Britain
+uneasy about agreeing to adopt it.</p></div>
+<div>
+ <title>Existing models of church and charity structures</title>
+ <div>
+  <title>Britain Yearly Meeting</title>
+  <p>The charity is Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain, and Britain
    Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers),
    Charity number: 1127633</p>
-<p>The governing document for the latter charity
+<p>The governing document for this
 (<link href="https://www.quaker.org.uk/documents/bym-governing-document-revised-min34-bym2014">https://www.quaker.org.uk/documents/bym-governing-document-revised-min34-bym2014</link>)
 begins with the following definitions:</p>
 <list type="enum" class="alpha">
@@ -243,7 +246,7 @@
      (Quakers) in Britain</item>
 <item>Meeting for Sufferings is the standing representative body of the Society.</item>
 <item>The term Friend refers to a member of the Society.</item>
-</list><p>* Highlighting added</p>
+</list>
 <p>Note that there are two clearly distinguished entities, "the church"
 and "the charity".  The charity is governed by the above referenced
 governing document, the church by the Red Book.</p>
@@ -252,8 +255,10 @@
 amending the governing document, appointing Britain Yearly Meeting
 trustees, approving their terms of reference and appointing their
 clerks, among them the BYM Treasurer.</p>
-<p>2. Area meetings in Scotland governing documents</p>
-<p> * The governing document for the Religious Society of Friends
+ </div>
+ <div>
+  <title>East of Scotland</title>
+ <p>The governing document for the Religious Society of Friends
    (Quakers) [in Britain] East Scotland Area Meeting (abbreviated as
    East Scotland Area Meeting) is based on the template provided by
    Quaker Life
@@ -263,7 +268,7 @@
    Scotland) Area Meeting in session" clearly refer to the church, and
    in "3. Object The object of East Scotland Area Meeting" it is
    evidently the charity.</p>
-<p>   This sentence, taken unchanged from the template, is of note: "If
+<p>This sentence, taken unchanged from the template, is of note: "If
    at a meeting of East Scotland Area Meeting the members decide that
    it is necessary or advisable to dissolve the Area Meeting or to
    amalgamate with another Area Meeting <emph>and this is agreed by Meeting
@@ -275,8 +280,10 @@
    Meeting, or to some other charitable institution or institutions
    having objects similar to that of the area meeting and failing that
    for such other charitable purpose as Britain Yearly Meeting shall
-   direct."  [Emphasis added]</p>
-<p> * The governing document for the Religious Society of Friends
+   direct."  [Emphasis added]</p></div>
+ <div>
+  <title>South East Scotland</title>  
+<p>The governing document for the Religious Society of Friends
    (Quakers) in Britain: South East Scotland Area Meeting [referred to
    below as South East Scotland Area Meeting or the area meeting and
    formerly known as South East Scotland Monthly Meeting] likewise is
@@ -289,19 +296,31 @@
    it's the church.  The dissolution clause is again taken from the
    template, with the addition of GM for Scotland to the allowed
    dispositions.</p>
-<p> * Dundee Friends Property Trust was governed by a 130-odd-year-old deed
-   of trust, now superseded in 2009 by a governing document, which I
+ </div>
+<div>
+ <title>Dundee Friends Property Trust</title>
+<p>This was governed by a 130-odd-year-old deed
+   of trust, superseded in 2009 by a governing document, which I
    can't find online.  From the 2020 Annual Report:</p>
-<p>    "New trustees are appointed by the remaining trustees, who are
+<p>"New trustees are appointed by the remaining trustees, who are
      bound to select individuals in sympathy with the conditions of
      the original Trust Deed and who shall, if possible, be
      representative of Dundee Local Meeting. The majority of Trustees
      shall be drawn from Dundee Local Meeting."</p>
-<p> * North of Scotland AM is also based on the Quaker Life template.
+</div>
+ <div>
+  <title>North of Scotland</title>
+  <p>Their governing document is also based on the Quaker Life template.
    Stewardship of North of Scotland Quaker Trust is identified as a
    responsibility of NSAM Trustees in their Terms of Reference.</p>
-<p> * General Meeting for Scotland</p>
-<p> * The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Wales and the Marches
+ </div>
+ <div>
+  <title>General Meeting for Scotland</title>
+ </div>
+</div>
+ <div>
+  <title>The new structure for Wales and the Southern Marches</title>
+  <p>The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Wales and the Marches
    - Cymdeithas Grefyddol y Cyfeillion (Crynwyr) yng Nghymru a’r
    Gororau [know as Cynar] is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation
    (CIO, comparable to an <name>SCIO</name>).  Its constitution (Linked from
@@ -330,6 +349,7 @@
    operate under a formal governing document, which amongst other
    matters should set out the arrangements for trusteeship."
    </p>
+ </div>
 <p>Prison Chaplains</p>
 <p>QF&amp;P (13.54) gives area meetings responsibility for appointing prison
 chaplains and "General Meeting for Scotland is responsible for