The World Gathering of Young Friends is the name of several gatherings of members of the Religious Society of Friends between the ages of 18 and 35. There have been two gatherings by this name; the first in 1985 in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States, and the second in 2005 in Lancaster, England, and Mombasa, Kenya. Though these gatherings are the first that were truly worldwide in scope, they followed many gatherings of a similar sort of Friends from North America and Europe.