Wigton Meeting House: shedding light
An apology and explanation
Every Meeting house is a place of many precious memories. It is also a landmark and a symbol. So the decision to lay down a Meeting, and sell a Meeting house, is not one taken lightly. It is done with a heavy heart. There are Quaker ways of laying down a Meeting and disposing of its property. These have been carefully discerned over centuries. Last week an article was published on the third page of the Friend about the laying down of Wigton Meeting and the sale of Wigton Meeting House. It contained some significant inaccuracies and omissions. In a letter on page eight some wholly unfounded, derogatory allegations about North Cumbria Area Meeting (NCAM) trustees were also made. They were untrue. The Friend apologises unreservedly to the trustees of the Area Meeting.
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