Author: Wendrie Heywood
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Quaker Leadership – Quaker & Business Gathering ’18
Quaker & Business Tickets are now available for the Quaker & Business Gathering 2018. Date & Time: Saturday 30th June 2018, 9am – 5pm Location: Friargate Quaker Meeting House, Friargate, York YO1 9RL This year’s theme is Quaker Leadership, and as one of the planning committee I’m delighted that we’ve been able to get three
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Building Peace Together
Building Peace Together a Practical Resource Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) has produced a useful report with practical resources: The visibility of violent conflict from all over the world in our daily digest of news and media creates a sense that violence – or the threat of violence – is ever-present, when in fact,
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Fire Alarm – Do Not Touch!
Fire! Fire is a serious risk. However, even if the equipment can be tempting to small people, I don’t recommend telling them taping the control panel shut, or posting signs telling people not to touch the fire alarm. I suspect those intent on fiddling will ignore the sign. While you definitely don’t want to confuse
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Christian Entrepreneurship
A&Q 1 and Christian Entrepreneurship While I love Advice & Queries 1, “Take heed, dear Friends, to the promptings of love and truth in your hearts. Trust them as the leadings of God whose Light shows us our darkness and brings us to new life.” I had not previously considered it as business advice. During
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Q&B Conference 2017 ‘Seek unity; uphold difference; find wholeness: Exploring decision-making through Quaker Business Method and other models’
The annual conference was held at Friends House, always a pleasure to spend time there. The day was very full – with more workshops I wanted to attend than I could, which is always a good sign. You can read the full minute and report on Q&B’s website: http://qandb.org/qbc17 Priming the Brain My highlights were
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General Data Protection Regulations or GDPR
GDPR – what is it? The General Data Protection Regulations or GDPR, as it is commonly known, is an EU wide directive that came into law in 2016. You have until May 25th 2018 to be compliant. It is a complete overhaul of the data protection regulations – and applies to charities as well as
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Digital Organization: Let the calendar do the remembering…
Calendars are useful – except when the synchronization fails, although I like the idea of the day above. Meeting Houses are often run by volunteers. But even if you are a paid member of staff – usually you are fitting managing the maintenance of the building around other more immediate aspects of the work, and
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Flowers in Meeting for Worship
Do you have flowers or books on a table in the middle of Meeting for Worship? If you do – what books and who chooses them? Have you worshipped outside? All of these questions and more are being asked by Peter Duckworth who is coming to the end of a two year Equipping For Ministry
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ACAT Annual Conference 2016
Responsibility, Impact & Stewardship This year’s ACAT conference was held Saturday October 15th at Woburn House Conference Centre, London. Money & Monks, Markets & Monasteries Our opening address was Br Dr Anthony Purvis, Prior of St Michael’s Priory, Willen, Milton Keynes talking about the relationship between Thomas Merton and Dom James Fox the Abbot of the
