Category: Outreach
Posts all about helping others find you! Focusing on outreach into the local community, and on ways to present your worshipping community to the wider world.
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Quaker A-Z: X is for eX-hibitions
X is for eXhibition Earlier this week I went into Friends House specifically to visit this exhibition – and thoroughly enjoyed it. Gorgeous colours and textures shown off beautifully in the space, the sound track enhanced the art as you moved around the exhibit. There were several Ffriendly faces that I recognised, but there were
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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: 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: N is for Noticeboards and Newcomers
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. N is for Noticeboards Noticeboards, such as the one above are fairly standard outside most meeting houses. Usually they consist of space for Quaker posters plus information about the Meeting as a worshipping community. However, there are likely to be other
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Images for Quaker Meeting Houses
Friends House design and circulate a set of posters every year along the theme of Quaker Week – this year Quaker Week runs from Friday 27 September to Sunday 6 October. However, what if your Meeting House doesn’t have enough space to run all of the series or has difficulty relating to this year’s posters?
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Marketing or Outreach?
All businesses, if they are to thrive, need some form of marketing. All Quaker meetings, if they are to thrive, need some form of Outreach. Are they the same thing? What can you do to encourage Outreach? What can you do to encourage marketing? Why might you hesitate before doing anything? The word marketing can
