Local Meeting Contacts:
bethnalgreenquakers@gmail.com clerk@eppingquakers.org
clerks.harlow@gmail.com contact@romfordquakers.org.uk
quakerclerkwanstead@gmail.com Walthamstow will soon have a generic email address
The following Friends are appointed/nominated by the Area Meeting:
© indicates a committee clerk. Updated January 2025
Area Meeting Role Holders
Clerk: Christine Downes-Grainger clerknetam@gmail.com
Assistant Clerk: Judith Roads
Assistant Clerk (Membership): Daphne Stedman membershipNETAM@gmail.com
AM Elders:
Valda Aviks, Gavin Bowtell, Rosalie Bridge, Helen Carmichael, Chris Evans, John Nayar, Kirstie Macqueen ©, Aran O’Carroll, Jan Sellers
AM Pastoral Care Team:
Valda Aviks, Margarete Briggs, Keith Doak, Melvyn Freake ©, Rebecca Fricker, Liza Moon, Tamara Stoll
Burial Ground Officer & Funerals Advice: Melvyn Freake
AM Nominations Group: Melvyn Freake, Judith Roads, Chris Evans
Registering Officer for Marriages: Liz Ingham
Safeguarding Officers: Fiona Day, Kate Green safe.netaqm@gmail.com
Children and Young People’s Advocate: Rebecca Fricker
Custodian of Records: David Irwin
Website Manager: Richard Bryden
AM Trustees:
Peter Green, Kirstie Macqueen ©, John Nayar, Antony Rawlinson, Anne Smith
Areas of interest to be agreed:
Safeguarding, Employment, Data Protection, Sustainability, Premises, Finance, Documentation, Health & Safety
six local meetings: Bethnal Green, Epping, Harlow, Romford, Walthamstow, Wanstead
AM Treasurers Committee: (a sub-committee of Trustees)
Helen Carmichael (AM Bookkeeper), Alan Fricker ©, Peter Green, Liz Ingham, Peter Law, Sue McCarthy, Jane-Eve Straughton
Gift Aid Collector: Anne Smith
Premises Committees:
Epping: Christine Downes-Grainger ©, Alan Fricker
Romford: Gavin Bowtell, Mark Vince, Richard Bryden
Walthamstow: Ray Mgadzah, Hazel Natai co-©, Jane Natai co-©, Len Welson
Judith Roads (employee’s line manager)
Wanstead: John Dash, Irene Davies, Sue McCarthy, Ray Muna, John Smith ©
Meeting for Sufferings Representatives: Liz Ingham, Jo Law (alternate)
London Quakers Property Trust Trustees: John Smith, Judith Roads
NE Thames Quaker Trust Trustees:
Richard Bryden, Irene Davies, Chris Evans, Alex Gournay ©, Kate Green
Annual Gathering Committee (High Leigh):
For the 2025 event, committee members are from NETAM, NLAM and NWLAM
from NET - Helen Carmichael, Juno Lee, Rex Regan, Rebecca Fricker
Co-Convenors are Helen Carmichael and Jean Jenn (from NWLAM)
Friends Housing Bursary Trust: Chris Evans
London Link Group Representative: Rebecca Fricker
London Quaker Service Trust Trustee: Fiona Day
London Quakers Representative: Tamara Stoll
Pan London Development Group Representatives:
Christine Downes-Grainger vacancy
Quaker Life Representative Council: Jo Fox, Gemma Tighe
Young Friends General Committee: vacancy