Advice and tips on how to manage and run your charity
Quakers have a testimony to equality. For over sixty years Quakers in Britain have struggled with gender and sexual equality.
Gender inclusive or gender neutral?
All clerks, or anyone needing to deal with records is likely to end up with documents that need to be stored. Documents need to be
Evaluation should follow action, then action should follow evaluation, and so on. Don’t let a yearning for perfection, or fear of mistakes, paralyse you. But don’t charge ahead without consideration either.
So. Where to start?
Quakers write their minutes contemporaneously, meaning each minute is agreed in the meeting. This usually happens at the end of the topic and must happen
I’m often asked what is the difference between a Quaker Clerk and the Chair of a Committee. My usual rather tongue-in-cheek (and not strictly true)
Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash Sending emails… BCC (“blind carbon copy” – have you used carbon copying paper?) is now easy to do and
Photo by Pete Alexopoulos on Unsplash Authority is something that people often don’t like to accept. Quakers can confuse the idea that everyone is equal
Clerking We are inviting you to follow our new Quaker A-Z blog series – for 2023 the MBS focus for the series is clerking. Every other
I think I have wasted a great deal of my life waiting to be called to some great mission which would change the world. I
