Young Friends General Meeting
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Young Friends General Meeting is the national organisation for young Quakers (from 18 to around 30ish) in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1911. The General Meetings alluded to in the title are held in February, May and October each year, in various places in the country.
Various local chapters exist, and hold regular meetings. They carry out a special project each year, based on the concerns of the members in regard to the needs around them. The organization also publishes a monthly magazine entitled Young Quaker.
Perhaps summing up its work is a statement from 1926 'Our work is based on the thought that 'What you have inherited from your forefathers, you must acquire for yourselves to possess it'. That is to say that each generation of Young Friends by its experiments must discover for itself the truths on which the Society is built, if it is to use those truths, and to continue and enlarge the work of the Society. Hence the occasional separate meetings of younger Friends and our desire to have means of expressing corporately our own experience' (QFP 21.04).
