Friendship and discovery

14 May 2015 | by Elinor Smallman

Elinor Smallman explores what children and young people got up to at Yearly Meeting

Members of the Young People's Programme protesting at the British Museum. | Photo: All courtesy of the Children and Young People’s team, Quaker Life.

Elements of the theme ‘Living out our faith in the world’ were woven throughout the activities that young Quakers engaged in during Yearly Meeting 2015. One hundred and thirty under-eighteens considered fairness, inequality and injustice as part of the Children and Young People’s Programme activities.

They shared their experiences with the Yearly Meeting on Monday 4 May. Junior Yearly Meeting, which met at Lee Valley Youth Hostel, offered their epistle (see ‘Junior Yearly Meeting 2015: Epistle’) whilst other groups contributed minutes.

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