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QUAKER EVENTS SOUTH EDINBURGH Local Meeting for Business will be held after our MEETING Meeting for Worship on Sun 25 April. Same Zoom link. April 2021 South Edinburgh Friends are very welcome to join the following Edinburgh Central Meeting events. All via Zoom: details from [email protected] Singing Group – meets every first Tuesday (so March 2nd) at 7.30 pm Online coffee – bring your own to an online conversation, 10.30 on 1st and 3rd Thursdays, and also 5th Thur 29 April. (note: new Zoom link) Book Group – 12.15 (after Central MfW) on Sun 25 Apr, Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane. MEETINGS FOR WORSHIP Some meetings may be resuming limited in-person meetings in future weeks, but we do not expect to be able to do this at the Open Door. Portobello and Musselburgh are looking at very limited numbers meeting in person when it is permitted. 20-25 Friends each week have been joining our meetings via Zoom, every Sunday 10.30-11.30 am. After a 5 min break we then share conversation over coffee. On 1st and 3rd Sundays we share coffee in smaller breakout groups. If you have technical problems joining, Martin Burnell has kindly offered to help. Joining instructions for Zoom meetings are sent in emails. You can find how to join our email list at https://quakerscotland.org/south-edinburgh SPECIAL COLLECTION Our collection in April will be for Railway Children.. “We believe in a world where no child ever has to live on the streets”. Originally in railway stations in India, now all over the world. Deirdre Armstrong will The World Turned Upside Down (details back page). speak to this. More at www.railwaychildren.org.uk Well it still is. where you can also donate directly. South Edinburgh Quakers Newsletter 1 Meeting for Business of 28 February 2021 Full minutes, including accounts, circulated separately. Highlights from Rici Marshall Cross: • Notes from our discussion of how to hold our meeting for worship for business • We will be holding our next Meeting for Learning about Transgender issues on Sunday 14th March • We agreed to delay arranging a meeting with our MSP until after the May election. We will consider what to discuss with them once we know who they are (and whether they are part of an opposition party or a party in government) • In 2020 we made a financial excess (income over expenditure) of £3,347. We agreed to make a donation to Area Meeting of £2,500 and offer a loan in addition of up to £1,500 if they need it to help with cash flow. We agreed to give £500 to The Open Door, either through renting the window to display Loving Earth Project textile artwork and remind passers by that South Edinburgh Quaker Meeting still exists, or as a donation as a gesture of goodwill and friendship. • We agreed to consider longer term principles for our financial reserves, and a small group will consider this and bring suggestions to our next meeting • We agreed to cover the cost of the updated book of members in order to avoid the complication of collecting payments. Friends may wish to make a donation of £3/£4 to general funds when it is convenient. We plan to deliver books to friends living locally via a small group of volunteers in the meeting, and post books to those living further away (expected towards end of March). Our next Meeting for Business will be held on Sun 25 April after Meeting for Worship. The changing shape of meetings You may have received General Meeting’s book of members recently. Thanks to the delivery team. On the quaker.org blog, Penny Elliott picks a few things from the Tabular Statement that counts Friends every year. https://bit.ly/3coPb7a Quakers (and most other churches) have seen slipping attendances over recent decades. The median meeting size is now 21, versus 24 10 years ago. However a quarter of meetings grew in size over that time. General Meeting for Scotland recorded our 2020 Tabular Statement as 678 Members, 550 Attenders, and 119 children. There is more local detail in the minutes of March’s Area Meeting. GM Minutes record also a desire to consider organisational rearrangements might facilitate the working and developing of Quakers in Scotland. South Edinburgh Quakers Newsletter 2 622 while the patient is on the table. 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