Category: Money Handling
Posts all about money handling – charity finance administration, advice, risk management, oversight.
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Quaker A-Z: K is for Knitting
Photo by Stephane Gagnon on Unsplash Avoiding dropped stitches Annual reports are often a cobbling together of bits from various people, groups or committees, with a bit at the front from the clerk or chair and then at the end from the treasurer or trustee with financial responsibility…. Even listing out all the people involved
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Quaker A-Z: H is for Honorarium
What is an honorarium? An honorarium is a voluntary fee for voluntary service, a usually small sum of money given to someone as a token of esteem for some work they’ve done. It’s another name for a gift, fee, or some form of payment for services rendered. An honorarium is an ex gratia payment, i.e.,
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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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Starting out fine… & finishing well
I’m a firm believer in planning and starting out new projects or years with the end in mind. At this time of year, people are usually thinking more about last December than next. Finishing off the previous year’s accounts and reports – and yet, realising what was stressful and ensuring that you don’t repeat any
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#AdventWord 2019: 14 Gather
“None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.” – Mother Teresa Gather is today’s #AdventWord – my first thought was of gathering in resources including money. I joke that my hobby is getting non-Quaker money into Quaker
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#AdventWord 2019: 5 Raise
Perhaps not surprisingly the first topic that today’s #AdventWord Raise inspired was money. Raising money is a continual topic when running a meeting or a building – charitable or not. At one point the building would have been supported and even built or repaired by the worshipping community. However, for most buildings I’ve visited the
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ACAT Annual Conference 2016
Responsibility, Impact & Stewardship This year’s ACAT conference was held Saturday October 15th at Woburn House Conference Centre, London. Money & Monks, Markets & Monasteries Our opening address was Br Dr Anthony Purvis, Prior of St Michael’s Priory, Willen, Milton Keynes talking about the relationship between Thomas Merton and Dom James Fox the Abbot of the
