We’re delighted to announce that Jane-Eve Straughton has been appointed Executive Secretary of London Quakers Property Trust (LQPT), and will become Executive Secretary of Quakers in London (QiL) from January 2027. She joins us on 14 September, and Friends will have the chance to meet her at JLAM on 12 September.
Some of you will already know Jane-Eve. She’s a member of NETAM, where she serves as a Local Meeting clerk, and many will have encountered her through her work heading one of the governance teams at Quakers in Britain.
Jane-Eve brings a wealth of not-for-profit leadership experience, including as Executive Director of English Touring Opera and in other opera administration roles. Across her career she has built staff teams, managed substantial budgets, served as Company Secretary, supported strategy development, and ensured good governance. She holds a Diploma in Law and a degree in French and Russian, and while living in Norway was part of the clerking team at Oslo Monthly Meeting.
As Executive Secretary, Jane-Eve will lead the staff team, oversee the maintenance and development of our meeting houses, and support trustees and the network of committees that keep London Quaker life running.
A thorough and considered process
This appointment followed a rigorous and carefully run recruitment process, with many strong candidates including Quakers, people from other churches, other faiths, and of no faith.
We’re grateful to the Friends who gave their time to the recruitment panel, drawn from across London Quakers: six Area Meetings, LQPT trustees, Young Adult Quakers, the London Development Group, BYM trustees, QiL Nominations, QiL Arrangements Committee, and QiL Clerks (several wearing more than one hat).
As Beth Allen writes in Quaker faith & practice 8.24, “We need to be an ordinary well-run organisation, with good structures, and sensible practices, which we then make extraordinary by transcending not discarding them.” We believe Jane-Eve will help us do exactly that.
Caroline Nursey, Clerk LQPT Trustees and Member of London Development Group
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