Tag: #Community
Post that talk about building community, inclusion, diversity. Signposting resources as well as offering ideas and tips.
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Social Enterprise Day 2018
Although Mindful Business Services is a limited company for profit, we specialise in working with charities and social enterprises. Thursday 15th November 2018 is Social Enterprise Day. This is a global event run by Social Enterprise UK, that highlights the valuable difference that social enterprises make to peoples’ lives. Social enterprises can address poverty, tackle
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Quaker A-Z: V is for Vulnerable Victim
V is for Vulnerable Victim After a case of fraud in North Somerset and Wiltshire Monthly Meeting, members of that Monthly Meeting and Quaker Stewardship Committee produced a report titled: A vulnerable victim (you can download a copy at that link). The Judge at the Crown Court hearing referred to the Religious Society of Friends
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Quaker A-Z: S is for Safeguarding
A&Q 18 How can we make the meeting a community in which each person is accepted and nurtured, and strangers are welcome? Seek to know one another in the things which are eternal, bear the burden of each other’s failings and pray for one another. As we enter with tender sympathy into the joys and sorrows
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Managing Meeting Houses – January 2015
This is the annual weekend aimed at anyone who has a role related to managing a meeting house. Employers, employees, volunteers, caretakers, trustees – plus of course all those who are wearing more than one hat. Thirty participants made this a full weekend. Quaker Life and Woodbrooke organise this weekend, and each time I attend
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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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Affording our Meeting House – Sustainability
Six Weeks Meeting are the representative Trustee body for the 40 Meeting Houses in London. Last March they wrote a minute about how they would be tackling the 2011 Britain Yearly Meeting corporate decision to become a low carbon community – often called “Minute 36: Our Canterbury commitment” SWM13/23 Six Weeks Meeting Statement on a
