Britain Yearly Meeting in session is the body with ultimate authority for church affairs for Quakers in Britain (6.12). The term 'Britain Yearly Meeting' refers also to the combined membership of the seventy or so area meetings that make up the Religious Society of Friends in Britain and it is used as well in its governing document to refer to the work carried out centrally on behalf of the membership. This work is overseen by committees with membership drawn from Friends throughout Britain. Whilst much of the work of the yearly meeting takes place at general, area or local meeting level, some work is more appropriately organised centrally, and it is that which is described in this chapter.
In the governing document for the centrally held and managed policy, property, employment and work adopted by Yearly Meeting, the charitable object of Britain Yearly Meeting is 'the furtherance of the general religious and charitable purposes of the Religious Society of Friends in Britain and beyond'. The full governing document and explanatory notes are obtainable on application to the Recording Clerk.
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