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: W is for Woodbrooke & Websites
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. W is for Woodbrooke I should start this with an acknowledgement that Woodbrooke is one of my favourite places – I have been lucky enough to learn and teach there. Life Artistry, the spiritual scrapbooking course I developed, has been taught there
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Quaker A-Z: V is for Volunteers and (school) Visits
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. V is for Volunteers If you read the last post ‘U is for understanding and undervalued‘ you may be wondering how to avoid having your wardens or other volunteers feeling undervalued and misunderstood. Is it just as simple as following the
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Quaker A-Z: U is for Understanding and Undervalued
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. U is for Understanding From Quaker.org.uk/wardens: Many Quaker meetings appoint wardens, resident Friends, caretakers, managers, other employees or volunteers to manage, or work in meeting house premises and grounds. The nature of these roles varies according to the circumstances of individual
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Quaker A-Z: Q is for Quality and Quakers
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. Q is for Quality Quaker used to be synonymous with Quality – hence the picture of a Quaker on the oatmeal pack. 23.62 The attempt to identify and apply Christian values in practice is a struggle laid upon each generation. As
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Quaker A-Z: P is for Premises and Policies
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. P is for Premises 14.25 Meeting houses Care of premises A meeting house should not be regarded primarily in terms of bricks and mortar, or merely seen in relation to potential site value. Its real value derives from the worship and
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Quaker A-Z: O is for Oversight, Opening times and Operations Manual
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. O is for Oversight Oversight is more commonly used for pastoral matters than practical ones – and yet caring and maintaining the building in which the community meet and worship, should not just be left to a small committee. However, this
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Quaker A-Z: M is for Mission and Money (but not Marketing)
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project click here for more information. M is for Mission What is your mission? Not a question that is asked often here in the UK. But one that was a common first question among people meeting in Kenya during the FWCC World Conference in 2012. Instead of the more
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Quaker A-Z: J is for Juggling Roles
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. On the Wardenship e-List one of the perennial questions a newly appointed Trustee or member of Premises asks is: “What does your warden do?” As with so many things this question has as many different answers as the number of Quakers
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Quaker A-Z: I is for Inventories, Insurances and Inclusiveness
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. I is for Inventories, Insurances and Inclusiveness Inventories and Insurances Inventories and Insurances seem to go together – Inclusiveness perhaps less so. Insurances are of course another of those matters where I will advise that professional guidance should be sought. Contents
