Category: Charity Management
Advice and tips on how to manage and run your charity
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Quaker A-Z: Y is for D.I.Yourself
Y is for Do it Yourself Quakers have a long and worthy history of working together to solve large and small problems. Painting parties, working in the garden – even the Quaker Tapestry was done as a group effort. As mentioned in V is for Volunteers you may get professional people volunteering and you should
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Quaker A-Z: W is for Where does the money go?
W is for Where does the money go? One of the difficulties I have found in both being a warden, and in dealing with finances is that most people aren’t interested. They nod politely when you mention money, glance at the account reports briefly when presented (if they’ve attended Business Meeting) and it is usually
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Quaker A-Z: V is for Vulnerable Victim
V is for Vulnerable Victim After a case of fraud in North Somerset and Wiltshire Monthly Meeting, members of that Monthly Meeting and Quaker Stewardship Committee produced a report titled: A vulnerable victim (you can download a copy at that link). The Judge at the Crown Court hearing referred to the Religious Society of Friends
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Quaker A-Z: S is for Safeguarding
A&Q 18 How can we make the meeting a community in which each person is accepted and nurtured, and strangers are welcome? Seek to know one another in the things which are eternal, bear the burden of each other’s failings and pray for one another. As we enter with tender sympathy into the joys and sorrows
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Quaker A-Z: M is for Measuring & Management
This post is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. M is for measuring Increasing productivity or income, decreasing waste and carbon all sound good but how can you tell if the plans you’ve so carefully made are working? Keeping a record of measurements can help you decide if that
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Quaker A-Z: K is for Knowledge & Know-how
This post is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. K is for Knowledge & Know-how “Learning the Knowledge” or the 25000 streets in central London that a taxi driver must be able to recognise to gain their license has been shown to result in a visibly bigger hippocampus. Whilst
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Quaker A-Z: I is for Interconnected Icebergs
This post is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. I is for Interconnected Icebergs Originally this post was going to be titled I is for Interconnections, but I couldn’t resist using the SWM iceberg shown above. Thanks to John Dash for permission. Six Weeks Meeting owns all of the
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Quaker A-Z: G is for gifts
This post is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. Qf&P 3.22 Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in
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Quaker A-Z: D is for Digital Diaries and Documents
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. D is for Digital Diaries and Documents Diaries can be a wonderful organising tool, but they can also lead to confusion if not updated on a regular basis. If lost the information can usually be downloaded again. many people use a combination
