Category: Charity Admin
Professional guidance, tips and tricks specific to charity administration to make things run more smoothly and easily.
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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: B is for Books
Photo by Jonas Jacobsson on Unsplash Books… B is for Books. For goodness sake, write it down! In this blog, we are taking inspiration from John McCutcheon’s storytelling folk songs: “Write it down so we’ll remember What is was we said I believe we really need to Summarize what we’ve agreed to Pass that paper
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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: 2025 Introduction
Introducing Our A-Z Series for 2025 Exploring Communication, Collaboration, and Community – One Letter at a Time As we step into 2025, we’re excited to unveil our new bi-weekly blog series: the A-Z of Communication, Collaboration, and Community. This year, we’ll be diving into 26 powerful words – one for each letter of the alphabet
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Quaker A-Z: Z is for Zeal, Zest & Zen
Z words can be tricky After all, there are only between 426 (Scrabble dictionary) and 693 (Word Finder site) words beginning with Z in English. This is why I am going for Zeal, Zest and Zen. Plus, for each A-Z series, by the time I get to Z, it is not only the end of
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AdventWord 2024: Refine
How Small Adjustments Can Make a Big Impact Photo by Carl Heyerdahl on Unsplash In 2025, MBS is turning its attention to communication, community and collaboration. In addition to our bi-weekly A-Z series, we are hosting FREE quarterly training workshops. Today’s AdventWord is REFINE and I would like to explore refining your communications strategy. You might
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AdventWord 2024: Sprout
Growing Through Professional Development and Training The word sprout symbolizes growth and potential—a small, hopeful beginning that, with care and nurturing, can flourish into something remarkable. In the world of professional development, sprouting represents the first steps toward building new skills, strengthening teams, and achieving meaningful growth. Photo by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash Mindful Business
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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: W is for Who Do you Talk To?
Anyone or Everyone? When I ask – Who do you talk to? – question many trustees look surprised at that question and then tell me that they talk to other trustees and members of the charity/AM. Often they tell me they don’t talk to anyone outside of the charity. But of course by having buildings, and/or being
