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Hello!  We are Young Friends’ General Meeting, a national group for Young Adult Quakers aged between 18 and 30-ish in the UK – although we welcome people from beyond the UK to our gatherings.

We are a scattered community, and meet three times a year for residential weekends in different Quaker Meeting Houses to spend time together, explore our faith and ways of living out the Quaker testimonies to truth, simplicity, equality and peace.   At each weekend we welcome between 50 and 70 Young Adult Friends.

YFGM is a good way to make links with other Young Adult Quakers in your area – our members regularly meet up between gatherings, and plan extra social weekends too.  We welcome newcomers of all varieties, from those who have grown up in a Quaker family, to those who are simply Quaker-curious, or have recently started attending a Quaker Meeting.

We are a diverse bunch, united by a willingness to explore issues surrounding faith and social justice.  We worship together in silence, and often use silence during speaker and business sessions to both gather and focus ourselves.  YFGM members are interested and involved in issues such as:

• Peace work – both in Britain and internationally
• The campaign for equal marriage (Equal Love)
• The treatment of children in prison and other vulnerable parties within the criminal justice system
• Educational disadvantage within the UK
• Sustainability and Environmental issues
• Sustainable and Community housing projects

For more information see About YFGM.

Our Next YFGM is taking place in Nottingham from 17th – 19th February you can find the registration form and other documents here.

Are you a Quaker or interested in Quakerism?

Would you like to spend a weekend with like minded people?

Then why not attend YFGM February 17th-19th at Nottingham Quaker Meeting House

Young Friends General Meeting (YFGM) is a national group for Young Adult Quakers aged between 18 and 30-ish.
We are a scattered community, and meet three times a year for residential weekends in different Quaker Meeting Houses to spend time together, explore our faith and ways of living out the Quaker testimonies to truth, simplicity, equality and peace.
YFGM is inviting new people to attend for *free including travel
Over the weekend you can expect: games, silent worship, socialising, speakers, direct action activism, business and food.

Fill in the registration form and email (your details) or post it to the office. If you have any trouble contact our Coordinator by emailing yfgm(at)quaker.org.uk or phone 0121 4751998.
*We will reimburse your travel expenses (up to £100) at the event, provided you register 2 weeks in advance.

January planning weekend

Your faithful YFGM folks will be trekking off to sunny Exeter this weekend, to meet and plan an exciting gathering for February 2012 (17th-19th) when we’re hoping to be meeting lots of new faces at our Enquirer’s Gathering – which is FREE TO NEWCOMERS! 

Major Updates

• The registration form for October YFGM in Lancaster is now available.
• The minutes from May YFGM in Bristol are now available.
• YFGM is pleased to offer extra support for all newcomers at our YFGM in February 2012, including paying travel costs to come to the Meeting. For more information, see our page for newcomers.
• YFGM is pleased to officially support Symon Hill’s Walk of Repentance for Homophobia. The full text of YFGM Minute in support of Symon is available here.
• If you would like to support YFGM financially, you can now donate securely online! More information on the Contact page.
• The YFGM members database is now online (login required.) Members can use the online database to view & update contact details, and register for YFGM.

In the beginning…

…there was a YFGM Outreach Co-ordinator and her computer.

If you’ve made it to this site, well done!  We’re currently under construction, and hope to be putting up info, beautiful pictures, thrilling videos and who knows, maybe some polls and useful links.

All you need know for now is that YFGM will meet from the 21st-23rd October, in Lancaster Meeting House.  See you there!