Category: Money Handling
Posts all about money handling – charity finance administration, advice, risk management, oversight.
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Quaker A-Z: Q is for Quality and Quakers
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. Q is for Quality Quaker used to be synonymous with Quality – hence the picture of a Quaker on the oatmeal pack. 23.62 The attempt to identify and apply Christian values in practice is a struggle laid upon each generation. As
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Quaker A-Z: P is for Premises and Policies
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. P is for Premises 14.25 Meeting houses Care of premises A meeting house should not be regarded primarily in terms of bricks and mortar, or merely seen in relation to potential site value. Its real value derives from the worship and
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Quaker A-Z: O is for Oversight, Opening times and Operations Manual
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. O is for Oversight Oversight is more commonly used for pastoral matters than practical ones – and yet caring and maintaining the building in which the community meet and worship, should not just be left to a small committee. However, this
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Quaker A-Z: M is for Mission and Money (but not Marketing)
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project click here for more information. M is for Mission What is your mission? Not a question that is asked often here in the UK. But one that was a common first question among people meeting in Kenya during the FWCC World Conference in 2012. Instead of the more
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Quaker A-Z: L is for Learning and Lights
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. L is for Learning and Lights Learning and Light are things Quakers talk about regularly, although perhaps not always in relation to premises. How do you involve other members of the meeting in learning about the meeting house as a building?
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Quaker A-Z: J is for Juggling Roles
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. On the Wardenship e-List one of the perennial questions a newly appointed Trustee or member of Premises asks is: “What does your warden do?” As with so many things this question has as many different answers as the number of Quakers
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Quaker A-Z: I is for Inventories, Insurances and Inclusiveness
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. I is for Inventories, Insurances and Inclusiveness Inventories and Insurances Inventories and Insurances seem to go together – Inclusiveness perhaps less so. Insurances are of course another of those matters where I will advise that professional guidance should be sought. Contents
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Quaker A-Z: A is for Advice
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project click here for more information. A is for apple and also for Advice Where do you get advice about how to be a Warden or a member of Premises or a Trustee with responsibility for buildings? Starting off the series with a serious post. One of the
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Generic Email Addresses or how to prevent memory loss…
What is a generic email address and why do I think they are important? An example of a generic email address is which for a office or that office holder rather than a person. For Quaker Meetings’ Friends House offer the option to have a standard email address, yourmeeting@quaker.org.uk – which is actually a forwarding
