Category: Quakers
Quaker specific content, theology, worship, training, community, both relating to Britain Yearly Meeting and the wider Quaker family.
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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: O is for Oversight, Opening times and Operations Manual
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. O is for Oversight Oversight is more commonly used for pastoral matters than practical ones – and yet caring and maintaining the building in which the community meet and worship, should not just be left to a small committee. However, this
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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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Quaker A-Z: M is for Mission and Money (but not Marketing)
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project click here for more information. M is for Mission What is your mission? Not a question that is asked often here in the UK. But one that was a common first question among people meeting in Kenya during the FWCC World Conference in 2012. Instead of the more
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Quaker A-Z: K is for Kitchens and Keys
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. K is for Kitchens You may remember seeing some of the kitchen improvements I made after attending the Woodbrooke “Managing your Meeting House” course – where I added photos to improve equality. But there is more to managing a kitchen than
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Quaker A-Z: H is for History plus Health & Safety
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. H is for History plus Health & Safety History In B is for Buildings I mentioned writing down a history of the building to act as a corporate memory for Premises Committee. There is of course so much relating to the
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Quaker A-Z E is for Equality & Environment
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project click here for more information. E is for Equality and Environment Environment Here I’m not thinking of our green and pleasant land, but around the Meeting House inside and out. According to Quaker Faith & Practice – Elders have a responsibility to ensure ‘the right holding of
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An Explanation of the Quaker Alphabet Blog project for 2014
I’m joining in with the Quaker A-Z blog event – where all sorts of Quakers from all walks of life are coming together to share ideas. Linked only by our Quakerism and the format of publishing blog posts A-Z. In 2013 Rhiannon Grant, Stephanie Grant and Gil Skidmore wrote a blog post each week on
