Quakers Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Europe==== {{main|Quakers in Europe}} In the United Kingdom, the predominantly liberal and unprogrammed [[Britain Yearly Meeting|Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain]], has 478 local meetings,<ref name="Tabular statement 2010"/> and 14,260 adult members,<ref name="Tabular statement 2010">{{Cite web |title=Tabular Statement as at 31 xii 2010 |url=http://www.quaker.org.uk/sites/default/files/Tab%20Stat%202011%20v_lo%20res.pdf |author=Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160115151223/http://www.quaker.org.uk/sites/default/files/Tab%20Stat%202011%20v_lo%20res.pdf |archive-date=15 January 2016}}</ref> with an additional 8,560 non-member adults who attend worship<ref name="Tabular statement 2010"/> and 2,251 children.<ref name="Tabular statement 2010"/> The number has declined steadily since the mid-20th century.<ref name="Tabular statement 2010"/> Programmed meetings occur, including in [[Wem]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Meeting Style β Wem Quaker Meeting |url=http://www.wemquakers.org.uk/index.php/meeting-style |author=Wem Quaker Meeting |access-date=21 January 2012 |archive-date=16 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130416064516/http://www.wemquakers.org.uk/index.php/meeting-style |url-status=dead }}</ref> and [[London]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nwlondonquakers.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21&Itemid=35|title=NW London Quakers β Friends House Meeting|access-date=21 January 2012|archive-date=24 June 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120624071254/http://www.nwlondonquakers.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21&Itemid=35|url-status=dead}}</ref> Small groups of Conservative Friends meet in Ripley and Greenwich in England, and Arbroath in Scotland,<ref name="RipleyAndArboarth">{{Cite web|url=http://www.rcquakers.lomaxes.me.uk/|title=IIS Windows Server|website=www.rcquakers.lomaxes.me.uk}}</ref> who follow [[Ohio Yearly Meeting]]'s [[Book of Discipline (Quaker)|Book of Discipline]].<ref name=rcquakers>{{Cite web |url=http://www.rcquakers.lomaxes.me.uk/events/news.htm |title=News and Events |publisher=Ripley Christian Quakers |access-date=2 May 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100218092051/http://www.rcquakers.lomaxes.me.uk/events/news.htm |archive-date=18 February 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Evangelical Friends Central Europe Yearly Meeting has 4,306 members<ref name="FWCC2012"/> across six nations,<ref>{{Citation |title=Europe|author=Evangelical Friends Church International}}</ref> including Albania, Hungary and Romania.<ref name="FWCC2012"/> [[Ireland Yearly Meeting]] is unprogrammed and more conservative than Britain Yearly Meeting. It has 1,591 members<ref name="FWCC2012"/> in 28 meetings<ref>{{Cite web |title=Quakers in Ireland |url=http://www.quakers-in-ireland.ie/ |author=Ireland Yearly Meeting}}</ref> across the Republic of Ireland, and in Northern Ireland. German Yearly Meeting is unprogrammed and liberal and has 340 members,<ref name="FWCC2012"/> worshipping in 31 meetings in Germany and Austria. Small groups of Friends in Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, and Ukraine attend meetings for worship there.<ref name="FWCC2012"/> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page