Category: Property Admin
Administration guidance, tips and tricks specific to estate and property management.
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Quaker A-Z: D is for Delve
In this Quaker A–Z blog, D is for Delve, bringing together a curated selection of previous A–Z posts linked to the letter D. This reflective round-up explores key themes relevant to Quaker charities, including governance, administration and values-led decision-making. By delving into these connected ideas, this post offers practical insights to support trustees, clerks and
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Quaker A-Z: X is for X marks the spot (again)
Do you appear on the map? If someone is looking for your building – does it appear on the map? Hopefully it appears as at least a grey block! But… is it labelled? are there signposts? have you claimed your charity/building/business on Google maps? do you appear on local neighbourhood maps? When I lived and
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Quaker A-Z: F is for Finding and being Found
Get found! How easily can your organisation be found? This is a vital element of attracting new members and hirers.
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Quaker A-Z: A is for Accountability & Authority
Accountability Counts Both Ways I find many people find these two words hard to deal with, especially Authority, ‘Quakers don’t deal well with authority’, ‘I don’t like authority’, or ‘I don’t want authority’ I get told. When I ask about Accountability – they often tell me they don’t like that for them. However they often
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Quaker A-Z: X is for X-ray
X-rays look through to the supporting structures An X-ray gives transparency and vision that cuts through and sees what is important in an organisation. The end of the year is always a good time to take stock – to review what you’ve successfully completed, where things didn’t develop or complete as expected, or perhaps what
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Quaker A-Z: L is for Legal Obligations
Coulda, Shoulda, Maybe list MBS is often asked to review policies for clients, and as part of that someone will say, ‘make sure we have what we need‘ or similar. Sadly, the Charity Commission doesn’t supply a simple or straightforward list of policies and procedures that you need to legally have. Instead, they expect you
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Quaker A-Z: X is for Xerophilia
Xerophilia From the Greek xēros ‘dry’, and philos ‘loving’ This was a new word for me – I put out a prompt on Facebook asking for ideas for the clerk’s A-Z and Rhiannon Grant offered this lovely word for archives and record keeping. Photo by Wolfgang Hasselmann on Unsplash So what is a xerophile? A xerophile is
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Quaker Testimonies: Equality
What is a Testimony? A Quaker testimony is an action arising out a belief in something. They are core values that are often used to represent Quakers as a body. Living beliefs into Action As we were reminded at Yearly Meeting Quakers have testimonies OF something not TO something. We believe in something and try
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AdventWord 2022: Sign
Charity Administration – Creating signs As a charity, there are many occasions where you might need to create a sign. In semiotics, a sign is anything that communicates meaning. There are many different types of signs, you may need to create one, to inform, warn, instruct or promote. Whatever the reason there are a few
