Return of Standings and Duties Carried, Year Ending September 2025

RETURN OF STANDINGS AND DUTIES YEAR ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2025

HOUSES CIRCLES

Periods of separation noticed 311 204

Members resuming attendance in the year 268 190

Duties carried temporarily by another 742 609

Duties reassigned outright 219 177

Duties relinquished with no successor found 14 11

Duties held by one person for over five years 103 88

Deaths of members entered in the year: 96. Duties held by those members

at the date of death: 71. Reassigned within one calendar month: 68.

The figures for separation and for resumption are not netted against

one another and no inference should be drawn from the difference. A

member may notice a separation in one year and resume in another, and

many do.

The twenty-five duties relinquished with no successor are set out by

house in the appendix. Nine of them are the same duty in nine places

and the stewardship is asked to consider whether the arrangement is at

fault rather than the members.

This return counts duties and standings. It does not count people, and

it is not to be read as a measure of participation.