Author: Gemma White
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AdventWord 2024: Sprout
Growing Through Professional Development and Training The word sprout symbolizes growth and potential—a small, hopeful beginning that, with care and nurturing, can flourish into something remarkable. In the world of professional development, sprouting represents the first steps toward building new skills, strengthening teams, and achieving meaningful growth. Photo by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash Mindful Business
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AdventWord 2024
Introducing Our Advent Blog Series: Inspired by Forward Movement’s #AdventWord This Advent season, we are thrilled to introduce our annual special blog series inspired by Forward Movement’s AdventWord campaign—a global invitation to pause, reflect, and find deeper meaning through a daily word. Each day during Advent, the MBS #team will share personal reflections, thought-provoking insights,
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AdventWord 2023: Repair
Community events… This year, I had the great pleasure of working on a national PR campaign that shone a light on community initiatives in post-lockdown communities. During the pandemic, the world got creative in hosting many different gatherings, classes, and clubs – all hosted online. I felt a great sense of community at this time.
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AdventWord 2023: Begin
By definition… Begin: perform or undergo the first part of (an action or activity).”Peter had just begun a life sentence for murder” Planning to begin… In my line of work, I spend many hours meticulously planning. Planning workload, planning life and daily schedules to ensure that everything gets done. Whilst this is a critically important
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AdventWord 2023: Herald
Herald: What’s the meaning? A herald or a herald of arms was originally a messenger sent by noblemen or kings to deliver a message. Essentially a full-time position appointed by the sovereign. A modern diplomat today. The term herald can also be symbolic, a sign that something good is going to happen. In its official
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AdventWord 2023
Introducing #AdventWord 2023 It’s that time of year that we love at MBS, the start of Advent allows us to introduce our special annual blog series – #AdventWord. This year the MBS team have taken inspiration from Forward Movement’s list of AdventWords to bring you a thought or inspiration for the day. The series runs
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The Real MBS Managers & Supervisors
Photo by Emma Milton Running a charity is complicated. Our services give you the knowledge and support you need, to simplify, systemise and organise…So you can get back to doing good. MBS has a fantastic team of associates specialising in Charity Administration, Financial Management and Training and Mentoring. The expertise does not stop here, we
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MBS Launches New Online Classroom
About us… Mindful Business Services (MBS) empowers small volunteer-run charities to run with ethical efficiency. We do this by providing administrative support, financial management and training to you, and to members of your organisation. When you’re facing a medley of problems, large or small, it can be difficult to know where to look for solutions.
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Quaker A-Z: 2023 Introduction
Clerking We are inviting you to follow our new Quaker A-Z blog series – for 2023 the MBS focus for the series is clerking. Every other Friday we will post brief snippets of clerking information following the #QuakerAlphabetProject. Each post will reflect on each letter of the alphabet from an MBS perspective. The Quaker Alphabet blog project
