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Category: Community

Your voice shapes our meetings

Every item on a JLAM agenda begins with someone in our community being moved to bring something forward, weather they’re part of a local meeting, the London Development Group, or a committee that has been appointed by our Joint London Area Meeting. Here’s how that process works.

1. Raise it at your Local Meeting – If you feel led to bring a concern or leading forward, Quaker process starts closest to home. Bring it to your Local Meeting, where initial discernment can begin.

2. Your Local Meeting forwards a minute to Joint London Area Meeting – Once your Local Meeting has reached unity on the matter, it will record a minute and send it forward to Area Meeting – carrying the fruit of your meeting’s discernment into the wider community.

3. Send it to the co-clerks at least three weeks in advance – This gives the co-clerks the time they need to hold the agenda with care, and allows the Arrangements Committee to prepare the meeting to receive each item well.

Our next JLAM is on 13th June and the clerks hope to receive any papers or agenda items by 23rd May.

Ready to get involved? Get in touch with your local meeting Clerk

27 April, 2026
Getting to Know: Kayla

Greetings London Friends,

I am writing to introduce myself to you all.

My name is Kayla and I have been appointed to be the admin assistant supporting the work in establishing Quakers in London (QiL) through 2026. This is a part-time freelance role and I will be assisting on an as-needed basis.

This will include supporting the work of the London Quaker Property Trust (LQPT), the London Development Group (LDG) and QiL Committees to assist to ensure everything proceeds as smoothly as possible, and relieve some of the administrative burden on Friends who have taken on key roles in this process.

I am available via admin@quakersinlondon.org and can provide assistance answering questions or finding information you may need!

A bit more about me!

Local Meeting: Westminster local meeting (although I am originally from Canberra Northside Meeting in Canberra, Australia).

What do you see as the value of your role?: Often, administration is a significant burden on Friends’ service, and can take up time which may be more fruitfully employed elsewhere, enriching the spiritual life of the meeting and bringing our community together. My hope is that this role will allow me to lighten the load on role holders during this period of transition.

What about your role are you looking forward to?: I am looking forward to getting to know Friends across London to help ease the transition to QiL.

What’s your favourite Advice and Query? So hard to choose! However, a phrase I often return to is “attend to what love requires of you.” I think that this is an important direction toward deep reflection as to how we spend our finite time here at all stages of our lives. Asking simply what love requires of us – love of our community, our world, all life on earth, and also of ourselves can be an important grounding principle where so many different considerations contend to claim our days.

Your Friend,

Kayla

If you’d like to hear introductions from other role holders please let us know which roles you’d like to hear from in the comments!

27 April, 2026
Friendly Welcome’s mission to support Palestinian students

Friendly Welcome was formed in 2021 by a group of North West London Quakers with a simple but powerful idea: that working together we can change lives.

Their first project saw them sponsor a Syrian refugee family to build a new life in the UK. Now, they’ve turned their attention to Gaza.

The situation there is heartbreaking – and for young people whose education has been shattered by conflict, the path forward can feel impossible. Their current project aims to change that, by supporting Palestinian men and women living amid the ruins of Gaza to take up university places in Europe and secure a brighter future.

They’ve already seen what’s possible. Working with a wider group of supporters, they helped a 17-year-old Palestinian woman take up her university place in Paris. That moment reminded them why this work matters.

Now they’re supporting Bashar, a Palestinian man with a place on a Masters in Digital Innovation at University College Dublin. To get him there and through his studies, they estimate they need around £40,000. They’re already halfway, and they’re working to raise the rest through grants, bursaries and private donations.

What makes Bashar’s story particularly remarkable is his determination. Despite living conditions most of us can barely imagine, he is actively pursuing every scholarship he can find – connecting whenever he manages to get internet access. He’s also committed to working the maximum permitted hours throughout his time in Ireland, doing everything in his power to reduce the funding needed.

They’re looking for people who believe, as they do, that education is hope. If you’d like to support Bashar, you can donate to the cause.

17 April, 2026

Category: Community

Your voice shapes our meetings

Getting to Know: Kayla

Friendly Welcome’s mission to support Palestinian students