Charity Admin
Quaker A-Z: M is for Marketing
Telling Your Charity’s Story With Purpose Marketing often feels like a luxury for small charities – something squeezed in between the ‘real work’ of service
June 27, 2025
Category: Compliance & Governance
Ideas to ensure your charity is compliant and well governed.
Community
Quaker A-Z: L is for Living Faithfully
How do we live faithfully? At Yearly Meeting two questions were asked: Â What is your message of peace for the world? What brings you
June 13, 2025
Business Books
Quaker A-Z: B is for Books
Photo by Jonas Jacobsson on Unsplash Books… B is for Books. For goodness sake, write it down! In this blog, we are taking inspiration from
January 24, 2025
Charity Admin
Quaker A-Z: A is for Accountability & Authority
Accountability Counts Both Ways I find many people find these two words hard to deal with, especially Authority, ‘Quakers don’t deal well with authority’, ‘I
January 10, 2025
Charity Admin
Quaker A-Z: X is for X-ray
X-rays look through to the supporting structures An X-ray gives transparency and vision that cuts through and sees what is important in an organisation. The
November 29, 2024
Charity Admin
Quaker A-Z: W is for Who Do you Talk To?
Anyone or Everyone? When I ask – Who do you talk to? – question many trustees look surprised at that question and then tell me
November 15, 2024
Compliance & Governance
Quaker A-Z: V is for Volunteer
I’m not a Volunteer, I’m just helping out… Everyone doing an unpaid task for the organisation is a volunteer. That includes: Committee Members & Trustees
November 1, 2024
Compliance & Governance
Quaker A-Z: U is for Unfair Business
What do we mean by unfair business? Quakers traditionally are associated with fair business practices – although if this reputation led to business success is
October 18, 2024
Charity Admin
Quaker A-Z: R is for Reduction & Rest
Reducing Reports One of the things I hear from clients is the wish that there were fewer things to do, fewer reports to read, fewer
September 6, 2024