Category: Quakers

Quaker specific content, usually relating to Britain Yearly Meeting specifically.

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 but want not to repeat!

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Charity Admin

Quaker A-Z: 2024 Introduction

Legally, a trustee is someone who has formal responsibility for the charity – and therefore must act in the charities best interest. This is the same no matter how they’ve become a trustee – elected or appointed. A trustee may take on specific roles or tasks for the charity, but the over all responsibility is held with the full body.

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Charity Admin

Quaker A-Z: Z is for Zooming

Zooming – hybrid clerking This subject was suggested by several people – but the title is thanks to Rachel Muers. I’ve clerked hybrid meetings for

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AdventWord 2023: Glory

Photo by Cristian Palmer on Unsplash Living out our Testimonies As a Religious Society of Friends we see the … environmental crisis is at root

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AdventWord

AdventWord 2023: Grace

What is Grace? Grace is such an unassuming word – comes from the Latin grātia and has interesting definitions…  Grace – unearned favour from someone,

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Quaker A-Z

Quaker A-Z: W is for Worship

Foundation not garnish… Quakers hold and make decisions at their Business Meetings – more formally called ‘Meetings for Worship for Business’, sometimes called ‘Meetings for

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