Author: Wendrie Heywood
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Quaker A-Z: B is for Buildings
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project click here for more information. B is for Building Records and Tours Building – perhaps if you read the last post you suspected that B might be for Building. However, I’m going to concentrate on two bits of caring for a building that I often see forgotten.
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Quaker A-Z: A is for Advice
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project click here for more information. A is for apple and also for Advice Where do you get advice about how to be a Warden or a member of Premises or a Trustee with responsibility for buildings? Starting off the series with a serious post. One of the
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An Explanation of the Quaker Alphabet Blog project for 2014
I’m joining in with the Quaker A-Z blog event – where all sorts of Quakers from all walks of life are coming together to share ideas. Linked only by our Quakerism and the format of publishing blog posts A-Z. In 2013 Rhiannon Grant, Stephanie Grant and Gil Skidmore wrote a blog post each week on
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Images for Quaker Meeting Houses
Friends House design and circulate a set of posters every year along the theme of Quaker Week – this year Quaker Week runs from Friday 27 September to Sunday 6 October. However, what if your Meeting House doesn’t have enough space to run all of the series or has difficulty relating to this year’s posters?
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Generic Email Addresses or how to prevent memory loss…
What is a generic email address and why do I think they are important? An example of a generic email address is which for a office or that office holder rather than a person. For Quaker Meetings’ Friends House offer the option to have a standard email address, yourmeeting@quaker.org.uk – which is actually a forwarding
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Affording our Meeting House – Sustainability
Six Weeks Meeting are the representative Trustee body for the 40 Meeting Houses in London. Last March they wrote a minute about how they would be tackling the 2011 Britain Yearly Meeting corporate decision to become a low carbon community – often called “Minute 36: Our Canterbury commitment” SWM13/23 Six Weeks Meeting Statement on a
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Affording our Meeting Houses
This could be taken two ways – how do we ensure that the Meeting House is affordable for both the local community and the worshipping community that uses it. Not only financially, but also with reference back to an earlier post: Beacon or Burden. Hopefully, all Quaker Meetings are a spirit-led, all-age faith community trying
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Marketing – the next steps
So you’ve read my previous post and either been busy ensuring you’ve met all the recommendations or you might be thinking, ‘yep knew all those!’ What other tips can I suggest? Well, hanging huge banners outside your building is one that Friends House did last summer… However, much of what is next will be very
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Marketing your Meeting House – the basics
When was the last time you looked critically, as a newcomer might, at the front of your Meeting House? Does it look inviting? Welcoming? Or a bit run down? Even somewhere you might be concerned about your personal safety? Have you ever tried to find out about your local meeting without knowing anything about it?
