Resident staff

Director	Helen Bayes
With a background work experience in social policy, Helen devoted many years to protecting the human rights of children. She spoke of her sense of being led in the 2002 Backhouse Lecture. She explored her concern further by researching early Quakers and their children as Eva Koch Fellow, at Woodbrooke. In 2007-8 she worked with Katherine Purnell on Quaker Voices in the C21st. In August 2009 Helen delivered the annual Sunderland Gardner Lecture to Canada Yearly Meeting on Prophetic Community.
Administrator	Valerie Joy
Valerie Joy has been a member of Friends since 1987, and for much of that time has had a concern for Quaker Learning opportunities within Australia Yearly Meeting. She retired from work with Local Government as a Strategic Planner in 2004, which enabled her to concentrate energies into international Quaker work. She is presently the Executive Secretary of the Asia West Pacific Section of Friends World Committee for Consultation (AWPS-FWCC). She has three adult married children, three grandchildren (soon to be four) and has the benefit of a wise nonagenarian mother. She is a member of Queensland Regional Meeting and enjoys her involvement with the Children's Meeting there
Friend-in-Residence	Mary-Jane Shaw
Mary-Jane is a retired Registered Nurse and a Member of Blue Mountains Local Meeting, NSWRM. She has done a lot of bushwalking and outback travelling, loves animals and is very interested in birds. She spins alpaca wool, knits and sews creatively, and has two adult children and one grandchild. She will be in residence during parts of December and January.
Cooks	Week one and two: Brigid Walsh Week three and four: Catherine Dabron Week five: Marie Harlech-Jones and Brian Harlech-Jones Week six, seven and eight: willing residents rostered
Resident Elders	Week one: Sheila Keane (NSWRM) Week two: Sheila Keane (NSWRM) Week three: Kerstin Reimers (TRM) Week four: Susan Addison (QRM) Week five: Abel Siboniyo (QRM) Week six: Barbara Rautman (VRM) Week seven:Emily Chapman-Searle (CRM)

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Catherine Dabron at the big stove, which is sometimes known as Hot Stuff or Sid Vicious.

Marie and Brian Harlech-Jones join in evening discussion after dinner.

Willing helpers

Part of the AQC program is for all present to do some work to help maintain the venue and clear up after meals:

Emily Chapman-Searle helps with washing up during the Young Friends Weekend.

Margaret Evans and Tess Edwards clean windows after a dust storm.

Bob Westwood rescues a goat trapped in a neighbouring fence.

John Baker installs a window in the art room at the back of the shearing shed.

David Carline burns dead thistles on 'the Island'.