Category: Inclusion
Posts on how to ensure our buildings, facilities, charities and communities can include everyone.
How can we build a community in which each person is accepted and nurtured, and strangers are welcome?
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AdventWord 2024: Gather
Gather for Good: How Charities Can Strengthen Community and Boost Impact Through Connection For charities, to gather people together – whether in person or online – is more than just an event or meeting. It’s an opportunity to create a deeper sense of connection, inspire support, and foster lasting community relationships. By gathering supporters, beneficiaries,
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Quaker A-Z: Y is for Yarn
A Good Yarn Firstly, in the last couple of A-Z blogs I’ve talked about reviewing your organisation and how you communicate with each other and further afield. Following this, I will refocus this time and talk about oral or verbal history and how that can enhance the meeting. In the last few years, I’ve been
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AdventWord 2024: Righteousness
The Light of Righteousness: A Guiding Star for the Holiday Season As the holiday season surrounds us with twinkling lights, warm gatherings, and reflections on the year gone by, it’s a perfect time to consider what it means to walk in righteousness. Often misunderstood as unattainable perfection, righteousness is, at its heart, about aligning our
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AdventWord 2024: Redemption
Quaker Redemption What do you do in Meeting for Worship? This is quite a frequent question when someone discovers I’m a Quaker, and that a Meeting for Worship isn’t like their more usual experience of a religious service. It is an hour of silence, or stillness, or expectant waiting – however you want to describe
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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 end of the year is always a good time to take stock – to review what you’ve successfully completed, where things didn’t develop or complete as expected, or perhaps what
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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 that they talk to other trustees and members of the charity/AM. Often they tell me they don’t talk to anyone outside of the charity. But of course by having buildings, and/or being
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All the colours
Letting the Light shine through Together with colours, it is always wonderful to get to see Friends and catch up. But also to join new conversations and discussions in corridors, and over meals. Last weekend I attended the Future of British Quakerism Conference in Yarnfield. We were joined by a very young Friend who ministered joyfully
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Quaker A-Z: O is for Open Outreach Operations
Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash Are you open for outreach operations? Last Wednesday (at the second of this month’s free training/webinar sessions), we talked about how a meeting, or any charity, should be open to others. Especially open to those around them who might want to find them and join or support them. We
