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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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?
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Marketing or Outreach?
All businesses, if they are to thrive, need some form of marketing. All Quaker meetings, if they are to thrive, need some form of Outreach. Are they the same thing? What can you do to encourage Outreach? What can you do to encourage marketing? Why might you hesitate before doing anything? The word marketing can
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Quakerly Business
Is a Meeting House… a place of worship? a business? a social enterprise? a community resource? Or some combination of the above? Historically Quakers have been very good at running businesses (including banks). In current years this has been viewed with more suspicion. Quakers In Business have a set of principles on their website which
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Meeting Houses – Beacons or Burdens?
As mentioned in my last post “Why have a Meeting House“, Quaker meetings are often supporting meeting houses with fewer members, as the number of Quakers donating money and time has reduced. Just over a year ago I helped organise an event in London called “Creating a Vision of Our Future“. During this, Alec Davison
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Why have a Meeting House?
This is a question often asked when I say “I manage a Meeting House”, or talk about making profits and covering costs. Why do we maintain places of worship? 1) Primarily a meeting house exists to enable Quaker worship to happen at a set time and place. Any premises will need some maintenance, investment and,
