Friends United Meeting, Baltimore Yearly Meeting (officially the Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends) is a body of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) headquartered in Sandy Spring, Maryland, that includes Friends from Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia, and West Virginia.
It is one of two yearly meetings in North America visited by George Fox (the other being New England Yearly Meeting,[1] who visited after a trip to Barbados.
Its constituent Monthly Meetings are in the unprogrammed tradition, which means that they meet for silent worship in which any participant may share whatever they believe the Spirit of God leads them to say.
Baltimore Yearly Meeting has been operating summer camps in the region since the 1920s.
Baltimore Yearly Meeting was home to Tom Fox, who worked with its youth.