Category: Good Practice
Explanations and investigations into good practice in charity admin, and gospel order in Quaker business meetings.
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Quaker A-Z: Y is for Your Why
Reconnecting Your Charity’s Purpose to Your Communications As we wrap up another busy year in the charity world, now is the perfect moment to pause, breathe, and reconnect with something often buried under to-do lists, funding reports and last-minute project deadlines: Your Why. Every charity exists because something matters enough for people to organise around
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AdventWord 2025
Daily reflections for Advent from MBS This December, we’re inviting our friends, colleagues, and clients to join us in following AdventWord 2025 with a reflective twist. We’ve created an interactive calendar featuring each day’s word as a gentle journaling prompt – an opportunity to pause, reflect, and capture your thoughts throughout the month. Whether you
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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: S is for Simplicity
Simple Things Communicating with others doesn’t have to be complicated. It can be simple. You just need to decide who you want to talk to, and about what. Then work out what is required, and who can do that – remembering that you don’t have to do it all. Photo by Glen Carrie on Unsplash
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Trustees & Treasurers Conference 2025
Quaker Life Conference Quaker Life organised a one day conference for Trustees & Treasurers to come together, be inspired, learn from each other. The conference encouraged us to interact with the speakers/workshops and ‘to see one another’s faces, and open our hearts one to another.’ Sitting at a table together was a bonus. However, it
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Quaker A-Z: N is for Nosiness & Noteworthy
Nosiness = Knowing each other in the things that are eternal Nosiness isn’t always negative. I love learning about people – many of them Quakers. I do this by going to Yearly Meeting, reading The Friend, visiting other meetings, or even looking through their minutes and newsletters. I often joke that one of the best
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Quaker A-Z: M is for Marketing
Telling Your Charity’s Story With Purpose Marketing often feels like a luxury for small charities – something squeezed in between the ‘real work’ of service delivery, funding bids, and compliance. But here’s the truth: if people don’t know what your charity does, they can’t support you. Marketing isn’t just about promotion; it’s a key part
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Quaker A-Z: L is for Living Faithfully
How do we live faithfully? At Yearly Meeting two questions were asked: What is your message of peace for the world? What brings you a sense of inner peace? Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash Radical Peacemaking was the theme Agenda Committee chose for this year. We were reminded that radical means from the
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Quaker A-Z: G is for Gardens and Greening
Gardens – a place to gather and share. This week we explore the use of gardens and what they say about your organisation.
