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Junior Young Friends (JYF) was a Quaker youth group within Britain Yearly Meeting for 13- to 18-year-olds, which held weekend-long gatherings roughly 3 times a year.
Events took place in a Quaker Meeting House, usually in the Birmingham area. It was, strictly speaking, responsible to Warwickshire Monthly Meeting, although Central England Quakers eventually took over the role. However, it attracted participants from across the United Kingdom, especially for the Bournville Christmas event.
The appendage of the word 'Junior' to the name was in order to distinguish from Young Friends usually used to describe Quakers aged 18–30 (as in Young Friends General Meeting).
The weekends sometimes had a theme, often related to Quaker ideals, which was contemplated through Base Group discussions, the Committee-run sessions and sometimes guest speakers. There was also a significant amount of free time allocated to allow participants to explore the city where the event was held. The tradition of staying up into the early hours of the morning, or not even sleeping at all, was embraced by the majority of the participants. JYF has evolved a number of in-jokes and other traditions including the love of beans and the celebration of "Pi time," by eating a type of pie such as a mince pie at 3:14am. These traditions often appear quite odd to those who have little experience of the young Quaker culture.
There are also a number of JYF groups worldwide.