Category: Building Management
Managing public buildings, owned by faith communities and balancing those groups needs and wants can be tricky. These articles might help.
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Quaker A-Z: M is for Measuring & Management
This post is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. M is for measuring Increasing productivity or income, decreasing waste and carbon all sound good but how can you tell if the plans you’ve so carefully made are working? Keeping a record of measurements can help you decide if that
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Quaker A-Z: L is for Lead & Lighting
This post is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. L is for Lead Many meeting houses have lead on their roofs or windows – even those who have a tiled or thatch roof may have flashing as can be seen on the porch above. Sadly this has become a
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Quaker A-Z: K is for Knowledge & Know-how
This post is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. K is for Knowledge & Know-how “Learning the Knowledge” or the 25000 streets in central London that a taxi driver must be able to recognise to gain their license has been shown to result in a visibly bigger hippocampus. Whilst
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Quaker A-Z: J is for Joining the Dots
This post is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. J is for Joining the Dots In the last post I talked about how so many of the jobs done both in the meeting house and across the country in each meeting house have similarities. Each meeting will have their
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Quaker A-Z: I is for Interconnected Icebergs
This post is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. I is for Interconnected Icebergs Originally this post was going to be titled I is for Interconnections, but I couldn’t resist using the SWM iceberg shown above. Thanks to John Dash for permission. Six Weeks Meeting owns all of the
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Quaker A-Z: H is for Hirers & Hospitality
This post is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. H is for Hirers & Hospitality Hirers are often mentioned in conjunction of, ‘how to increase the number you have’ or to complain about ‘what they do or don’t do’. Whilst I supply information on how to market your meeting
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Quaker A-Z: G is for gifts
This post is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. Qf&P 3.22 Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in
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Quaker A-Z: F is for Free
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. F is for Free While there is always the concern that you get what you pay for, and surely someone must be paying for this somewhere… There are things that you can find that are free and useful whilst running a
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Quaker A-Z: D is for Digital Diaries and Documents
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. D is for Digital Diaries and Documents Diaries can be a wonderful organising tool, but they can also lead to confusion if not updated on a regular basis. If lost the information can usually be downloaded again. many people use a combination
