AdventWord
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
December 3, 2024
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?
Charity Admin
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
November 29, 2024
Charity Admin
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
November 15, 2024
Inclusion
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
October 24, 2024
Charity Admin
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
July 26, 2024
Charity Admin
Quaker A-Z: N is for Numbers
Flipchart from Alison Gray’s presentation. Or Finances – for those who don’t like numbers! Spreadsheets can be complicated and off putting. Trying to explain who
July 12, 2024
Employment & Volunteers
Quaker A-Z: M is for Membership
Membership is a tricky word Quakers talk about Membership (note the capital M) and mean someone who has formally been recorded as a member of
June 28, 2024
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
December 22, 2023