6. Yearly Meeting

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Yearly Meeting committees

Agenda Committee

The planning of the agenda for, and the use of the premises during, Yearly Meeting shall be in the hands of the Yearly Meeting Agenda Committee, which shall consult as may be necessary with standing committees, general and area meetings and the Meeting of Friends in Wales.

The membership of the Agenda Committee shall be as follows:

a. the clerk and assistant clerks of Yearly Meeting together with any other Friend nominated by the Committee on Clerks to serve as clerk or assistant clerk of the next Yearly Meeting;

b. nine Friends appointed by Yearly Meeting for a three-year period on the recommendation of the Central Nominations Committee, one third retiring annually though eligible for re-appointment;

c. nine Friends appointed by Meeting for Sufferings for a three-year period on the recommendation of the Central Nominations Committee, one third retiring annually though eligible for re-appointment;

d. one Friend appointed by Yearly Meeting for a three-year period on the recommendation of the Quaker Life Central Committee for the children and young people's programme (8.10).

The Agenda Committee shall:

e. appoint such subcommittees of its members as are from time to time required;

f. appoint annually three or more of its members to serve on the Arrangements Committee (6.20);

The Agenda Committee is responsible for liaison with the planning committee appointed by Yearly Meeting to oversee the arrangements for each residential Summer Gathering (6.26, 6.27).

The Agenda Committee works closely with Meeting for Sufferings and its standing committees to promote the right holding of Yearly Meeting, to foster the Agenda Committee's relationship with them, and to integrate the work of the committee into the budgeted programme of central work of the Britain Yearly Meeting. It keeps under review the longer-term evolution of the institution of Yearly Meeting in session and the pattern of its gatherings over time, in relation to organisational and spiritual development in the life of the Society. Its terms of reference may be obtained on application to the Recording Clerk.

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