Category: Quaker A-Z
Quaker A-Z is our year-long blog series posted fortnightly. Brief snippets of information presented – you guessed it – from A through to Z!
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Quaker A-Z: X marks the spot
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. X marks the spot – part one X marks the spot for signatures. Do you have room hire contracts? Are they for set periods of time or a license for part of the building? Do you have full names and addresses
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Quaker A-Z: W is for Woodbrooke & Websites
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. W is for Woodbrooke I should start this with an acknowledgement that Woodbrooke is one of my favourite places – I have been lucky enough to learn and teach there. Life Artistry, the spiritual scrapbooking course I developed, has been taught there
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Quaker A-Z: V is for Volunteers and (school) Visits
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. V is for Volunteers If you read the last post ‘U is for understanding and undervalued‘ you may be wondering how to avoid having your wardens or other volunteers feeling undervalued and misunderstood. Is it just as simple as following the
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Quaker A-Z: U is for Understanding and Undervalued
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. U is for Understanding From Quaker.org.uk/wardens: Many Quaker meetings appoint wardens, resident Friends, caretakers, managers, other employees or volunteers to manage, or work in meeting house premises and grounds. The nature of these roles varies according to the circumstances of individual
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Quaker A-Z: T is for Twinning Toilets plus Terms & Conditions
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. T is for Toilet Twinning I first heard of this project at Woodbrooke, where the male and female toilets in the New Wing corridor are both twinned, and was impressed by the idea. Individual toilets are £60 to twin. Or a
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Quaker A-Z: S is for Sustainability & Stewardship
These are two words with complementary meanings. Sustainability In general terms, sustainability is the endurance of systems and processes. The organizing principle for sustainability is sustainable development, which includes the four interconnected domains: ecology, economics, politics and culture. At BYM Canterbury in 2009 Quakers made a corporate decision to become a sustainable low-carbon community. Receiving
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Quaker A-Z: R is for Recycling and Risk assessments
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. R is for Recycling Does your meeting house have recycling areas for goods accepted by the local council? Are there other things that can be recycled? Postage stamps (not the standard queen’s head) QPSW Stamp Club are sold to support Quaker
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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
