Yearly Meeting 2024: Preparation - part thirteen

The Friend’s reports from Yearly Meeting preparation sessions and special interest meetings continues

by Lis Burch, Rebecca Hardy, Imi Hills, Joseph Jones, Alastair Reid, and Elinor Smallman 19th July 2024

At Friends Trusts Ltd, John Dash introduced thirteen Friends to the work of the organisation that holds the ownership of most Quaker properties.

While Area Meetings (AMs) are usually the ‘beneficial’ owners of Meeting houses, regular changes to trustees makes their legal ownership complicated. Friends Trust Ltd (FTL) was set up in the 1920s to provide a permanent, secure Quaker owner of these properties.