The Pan London project is moving forwards, following our discernment on 15th February. There are proposals from our Development Group on the table now and we can all help shape them and guide how Quakerism in London will look.
This meeting on 7 June is our opportunity to hear and engage with proposals for managing the money currently held at Local and Area Meeting level. There are also proposals for the way our 30+ Local Meetings will relate to our new AM, and we will appoint a Nominating Group to seek Friends for key appointments in the new single Area Meeting.
As a meeting, we will be able to make decisions as to whether these proposals are the right way to go for Quakers across London, or whether they require amendment or further work. We invite Friends to engage creatively with the proposals.
Please read the proposals ahead of the meeting and join in the discernment about our collective future - in person in the Benjamin Lay Suite at Friends House or online using the online button on the London Quakers calendar (this will go live on the day).
Online Meeting Access
Meeting Link: Click here
Meeting ID 896 2844 5029
Meeting passcode LONDONQS
Provisional timings for the meeting are:
10:00 Coffee
10:30 Meeting starting with Worship
11:30 Break
13:15 Close
There will be a Meeting for children and young people.
Agenda
The agenda is likely to include:
Registration
You don't have to register but it helps us manage the meeting to have an idea of numbers.
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/londonquakers/1691198
Things to read to prepare for the meeting
There are also links to all these papers on the LQ Calendar entry for the JLAM on 7th June.
You may have also received them circulated by your Area Meeting Clerk.
Proposed financial model for London Area Meeting
You can also discuss the finance proposals at an online meeting on June 2nd 7 pm - see London Quakers calendar.
Things we hope to approve
Terms of reference for the Development Group
Terms of reference for the Arrangements Group
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Sun 18 May
Young Adult Quaker Meeting
17:00-18:00
Venue: Westminster Quaker Meeting House, 52 St Martin's Lane, London WC2N 4EA
London Young Adult Quaker Meeting occurs every first and third Sunday (and fifth Sunday if there is one!) at 5pm at Westminster Quaker Meeting House! To enter the building, go to the side door down Hop Gardens and buzz for the Library upon arrival.
Contact us via our Instagram page: @lyaqmeeting
5:00pm - Arrivals and socials
5:30pm - Meeting for Worship (if you want to join the Meeting for Worship, please arrive on time. We will not let people in the building between 5:35pm and 6:15pm.)
6:15pm - Notices and shared meal (an opportunity to socialise more over a bite. If you’re able to, bring snacks to share. If you’re not able to, bring your lovely presence!)
7:00pm - Home time or pub!
Everything is optional!
You can come for just the worship, or just the meal, or just the pub! Whatever you choose to join us for, it’ll be great to see you ❤️
Sun 1 June
Young Adult Quaker Meeting
17:00-18:00
Venue: Westminster Quaker Meeting House, 52 St Martin's Lane, London WC2N 4EA
London Young Adult Quaker Meeting occurs every first and third Sunday (and fifth Sunday if there is one!) at 5pm at Westminster Quaker Meeting House! To enter the building, go to the side door down Hop Gardens and buzz for the Library upon arrival.
Contact us via our Instagram page: @lyaqmeeting
5:00pm - Arrivals and socials
5:30pm - Meeting for Worship (if you want to join the Meeting for Worship, please arrive on time. We will not let people in the building between 5:35pm and 6:15pm.)
6:15pm - Notices and shared meal (an opportunity to socialise more over a bite. If you’re able to, bring snacks to share. If you’re not able to, bring your lovely presence!)
7:00pm - Home time or pub!
Everything is optional!
You can come for just the worship, or just the meal, or just the pub! Whatever you choose to join us for, it’ll be great to see you ❤️
Mon 2 June
How would we manage money in the London Area Meeting
19:00
Venue:
London Quakers have lots of money: how should we manage it when we have a single Area Meeting for London?
Open meeting for all interested on Monday 2 June at 7pm on Zoom.
The London Area Meeting Development Group needs to hear your views on how we will look after our money in the new London Area Meeting. Whether you are a treasurer or not, how we look after and spend our money is vital for almost everything we do. Come and hear our proposals and help us make them simple and easy to use so they meet the needs of Quakers in London today with simplicity, equality and truth.
This meeting is for you to learn about the proposals and give your feedback so we end up with the best answer we can come up with. It is not to decide whether we go ahead with the proposals - only a proper business meeting can do that.
Today, across our 7 Area Meetings and the London Quaker Property Trust (LQPT), we have inherited a complex setup with lots of separate funds and trusts containing several million pounds, with many bank accounts and many people needed to manage them. We cannot find enough suitable people to do this any more, so just to continue we must streamline and simplify things. North East Thames AM now looks after its money at Area Meeting level and we propose doing something very similar, removing the need for Local Meeting (and probably other) treasurers.
More details of the proposals have been sent out in a mailing, and links to them are given below. We will explain them briefly at this meeting and take questions. It would be helpful if you read them prior to the meeting.
We want to know what you think.
Could this work for your Meeting - will it allow you to do what you need to do?
What changes might be needed?
Are there funds in your meeting that need special consideration?
Any other thoughts, or people we need to talk to?
Here are links to the papers.
Proposed Financial Model for London Area Meeting https://files.quaker.app/33vzcm
2023 London AM and LQPT accounts collated https://files.quaker.app/b6x7cb
LAM 2026 budget v4 https://files.quaker.app/873fyp