Charity Admin
Quaker A-Z: D is for Draft Minutes
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
February 17, 2023
Category: Charity Admin
Professional guidance, tips and tricks specific to charity administration to make things run more smoothly and easily.
Charity Admin
Quaker A-Z: C is for Clerk vs Chair
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)
February 10, 2023
Charity Admin
Quaker A-Z: B is for BCC
Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash Sending emails… BCC (“blind carbon copy” – have you used carbon copying paper?) is now easy to do and
January 20, 2023
Charity Admin
Quaker A-Z: 2023 Introduction
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
January 6, 2023
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AdventWord 2022: Sign
Charity Administration – Creating signs As a charity, there are many occasions where you might need to create a sign. In semiotics, a sign is
December 19, 2022
AdventWord
AdventWord 2022: Purify
Definition: To purify is to remove contaminants, extract something or make it ceremonially clean. Organisation culture… I want to explore this concept from an organisational
December 18, 2022
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AdventWord 2022: Stranger
Participation in Meetings Qf&p 3.10 “Remember the onerous task laid upon the clerk and do all you can to assist. Submit information about matters to
December 13, 2022
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AdventWord 2022: Messenger
Photo by Alexander Shatov In today’s technologically advanced society, when I think about the term ‘messenger’ I think of a chosen app on our smartphones
December 11, 2022
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AdventWord 2022: Winnowing
Photo: Hannah Grace – A good approach to life as well as writing! What do we mean by winnowing? Well, put simply, to winnow is
December 4, 2022