Organisation
West Wiltshire & East Somerset Area Meeting is an unincorporated charity, registration number 1134534. The registered address is Friends Meeting House, 1 Whiteheads Lane, Bradford on Avon, BA15 1JU. It is described formally in our Governing Document.
The Area Meeting appoints trustees to manage its corporate affairs. The trustees meet every two months and the minutes of their meetings subsequently circulated to all the local meetings. Each year, they report on the Area Meeting’s activities and finances, summarized in our Trustees’ Annual Report and Accounts. The most recent published report is for 2025.
TRUSTEE | LOCAL MEETING |
|---|---|
Sally Harris (Clerk) | Bath |
Nick Aslett | Bradford on Avon |
Cora Gallagher | Chippenham |
John Flynn | Devizes |
Juliet Solomon | Frome |
Chris Pollock | Trowbridge |
The trustees’ responsibilities include employment, finance, property, health and safety, data protection, and safeguarding. They have drawn up policies and procedures termed Reference Documents to ensure that they follow best practice and Quakers’ sense of “right ordering”. The policies can be read and downloaded from the Key documents page.
Safeguarding
Our life is love, and peace, and tenderness; and bearing one with another, and forgiving one another, and not laying accusations one against another; but praying one for another, and helping one another up with a tender hand.
Isaac Penington, 1667
Safeguarding is a priority in our Area Meeting and its constituent Local Meetings. Anyone in our Meetings could be at risk of harm, particularly children up to the age of eighteen and adults with care and support needs.
Our Safeguarding Policy, Procedures, and Resources can be read and downloaded from the Safeguarding page. Alongside these, we have a pastoral care system based on the long Quaker tradition exemplified by the quotation from Isaac Penington above.