Category: Charity Management
Advice and tips on how to manage and run your charity
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Quaker A-Z: F is for Fear
What do you fear? This might seem an odd question for a charity management blog! However, Trustees, volunteers, and employees often tell me that they did something – or didn’t do something – because they were afraid of doing the wrong thing. Or were afraid of legal or other repercussions. Photo by Sincerely Media
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Quaker A-Z: E is for Employment
What does love require of us? You may feel that being an employer or managing volunteers is tricky and complicated. Especially if you’ve not had to do this elsewhere. Thankfully you’re not alone! Quaker Life offers guidance, templates and other documents on the Britain Yearly Meeting website. Focused on the recruitment and management of both
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Quaker A-Z: D is for Doing Good
Don’t just sit there… I remember the children’s meeting resource called, ‘Don’t just sit there do something!’ But so often people feel overwhelmed with the amount of needs and demands they see in the world. Even in the same worshipping community there can be differences of opinion as to what needs focusing on. I read
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Quaker A-Z: C is for Committee
Photo by Casey Allen on Unsplash What is a Committee? Did you know that a group of vultures roosting in a tree, or sitting on the ground, is called a “committee”? Supposedly the group of large birds, with featherless heads and necks above the body’s black feathers, made people think of a group of old
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Quaker A-Z: B is for Benefit
Edited Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash What do we mean by Benefits? Legally all charity trustees must work for the overall benefit of their charity. Your governing document will list the charity’s purposes, and any annual reports etc. should refer to them. However, all charity trustees must ‘have regard’ for the various charity acts
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Quaker A-Z: A is for Annual Actions & Atomic Habits
It is all too easy to draw a line over the ‘old year’ and only look forward to the ‘new year’. It’s always best to take a few minutes to decide what you need to bring along with you into 2024. Are there lessons learned, new practices you want to continue? Or challenges you overcame…
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Quaker A-Z: 2024 Introduction
Legally, a trustee is someone who has formal responsibility for the charity – and therefore must act in the charities best interest. This is the same no matter how they’ve become a trustee – elected or appointed. A trustee may take on specific roles or tasks for the charity, but the over all responsibility is…
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Quaker A-Z: Z is for Zooming
Zooming – hybrid clerking This subject was suggested by several people – but the title is thanks to Rachel Muers. I’ve clerked hybrid meetings for many years – a professional Zoom account makes meeting far-flung clients and committee members easier. I ran one of the first Woodbrooke online courses. Over a long weekend, when I
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Quaker A-Z: U is for Underlying Issues
Clear as… There are many items which have underlying issues that make them just too big and complicated to cover in a short meeting. Documents in advance can be helpful in ensuring that people are aware of what will be on the agenda, and what they might expect to make decisions on, wait for discernment
