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||Names ofthe chari|ty trustees who m|anage the charity|||
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||TfUstae nalIle|ONce (Ifany)|Dates acted Ifnotforwhole|Name
toa|ofperson (orbody) ended
nt truetee
a|
||Andrew Smith|Treasurer||Area|Business Meeting|
|2|Caroline Stowe|||ditto||
|3|David Braybrook|Clerk||ditto||
|4|Jennifer Pearman|||ditto||
|5|Julia Smith|||ditto||
|T|ofadviser|Name|Address||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Solicitors||Milne Moser|100Highgate,||Kendal,|LA94HE|
|Name|ofchief executive|or names ofsenior staff members||(Optional||informati|
|N/A|||||||
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|Along with maintaining
regular safe opportunities
for worship
during the post|
|---|
|pandemic
peiiod and throughout
2022.all four Local Meetings continued to|
|maintain
systems ofsupport for individuals
both by nominated
role holders and|
|through organised.
informal groups.The Area Meeting has worked on the|
|development
ofspiritual
and pastoral care and ways ofrethinking
the|
|effectiveness ofthese in local meetings
and across the Area Meeting
in line with|
|national
developments
prompted
by the Meeting for Sufferings ofBritain Yearly|
|Meeting. Many Friends provided
and continue to provide pastoral and spiritual|
|support toeach other within and outside these cirdes.
Opportunities
were|
|circulated for wider options for worship and study to exis5ng and new attenders.|
|The Area and four Local Meetings
maintained
their Meetings forWorship for|
|Business supporting
the life ofthe Religious Society. Ablended approach|
|combining
on line and in person mee5ngs was used, when appropriate,
for local|
|and Area Business Meetings.
Investment
was made in video conferencing|
|technology
for use in Kendal Local Meeting and forthe Area Meeting to enable|
|the wklest possible group ofFriends to attend worship and other events.|
|Friends have actively pursued
Quaker concerns throughout
2022 following our|
|Quaker testimonies
ofpeace, equality, justice, simplicity and suslainability.
A key|
|example isthe Friends were and are involved
in a range of individual
and group|
|activities
in furtherance
ofthese concerns. We continued to provide educational|
|activities for ourselves and othess (mee5ngs forlearnin,
study groups, talks,|
|discussions)
focusing for on concerns as well as spiritual development.
For|
|instance, concerns have induded
sustainability
and dimate change.
A number|
|ofFriends from across the Area Meeting participated
in a Sustainability
group,|
|which involved
Friends from three ofthe four Local Meetings.|
|We have increased our outreach activi5es and promoted the use ofour buildings|
|by external
groups socontributing
tothe life ofour heal communities.
These|
|included
Kendal and Kirkby Stephen Meetings hosting
ofthe 2022 Interfaith|
|yeariy events
in their local areas. Kendal and Kirkby Stephen Local Meetings|
|have regular local community
groups use oftheir buildings
and this has been in|
|development
in Preston Patrick and Brigflatts Meetings.|
|Friends have been actively involved
in the support ofthe Quaker Tapestry
with|
|its role in outreach and some served as its trustees and on its committees.|
|Kendal Meeting has run regular displays
induding
use ofthe Quaker Week|
|edition ofthe Quaker publication
of The Friend forvisitors tothe building. This|
|local meeting has also developed
outside banner displays forthe local|
|community
using key Quaker messages forinstance on peace and equality.
Kirkby Stephen and Preston Patrick have also developed
ways ofpresenting|
|Quaker messages to local people..|
|Kendal and Brigflatts Meetings continue tofocus their monthly
special collection|
|pmcesses to indude the charities
highlighted
by the work ofthe Area Meeting|
|wide Austerity
later Sustainability
Groups. These are in line with our testimonies|
|to indude for example charities fighting food poverty such as Fare Share and the|
|Trussell Trust.|
|Friends from three ofthe Local Meetings have actively maintained
their historic|
|burial grounds
and gardens
and welcomed
visitors to their Mee5ng Houses|
|outside any organised
events. Brigflatts Meeting has regular international
and|
|country wide visitors.|
|Trustees and the Properties
Committee
have successfully
managed
the on-|
|going maintenance
ofour historic Meeting Houses during 2022 especially
in a|
|post Covid period ofIncreasing costs. In 2021 a challenge forthe Area Meeting|
|had been the level ofthe fundraising
effort required forthe complex and costly|
|work needed to restore the roofofthe Kendal Meeting House; work which was|
|then carrhd out in 2022. The discovery ofnecessary,
previously
hidden,|
|additional
work, in December 2021,increased this challenge. The fundraising|
|and
lannin
have included su
for this oint work with our leaseholder
the|
|Mach 2012|