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: C is for Clearness & Committee
Communication can sometimes get muddled, this week Wendrie introduces us to Clearness Committees.
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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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AdventWord 2024: Gather
Gather for Good: How Charities Can Strengthen Community and Boost Impact Through Connection For charities, to gather people together – whether in person or online – is more than just an event or meeting. It’s an opportunity to create a deeper sense of connection, inspire support, and foster lasting community relationships. By gathering supporters, beneficiaries,
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Quaker A-Z: Y is for Yarn
A Good Yarn Firstly, in the last couple of A-Z blogs I’ve talked about reviewing your organisation and how you communicate with each other and further afield. Following this, I will refocus this time and talk about oral or verbal history and how that can enhance the meeting. In the last few years, I’ve been
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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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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
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Quaker A-Z: V is for Volunteer
I’m not a Volunteer, I’m just helping out… Everyone doing an unpaid task for the organisation is a volunteer. That includes: Committee Members & Trustees People who come in regularly to help with the gardening, or ad hoc by participating in a spring clean Popping in to do the locking and unlocking of buildings and
