Tag: Q A-Z: B
Part of MBS’s Quaker A-Z series. Published bi-weekly on an annual theme throughout the calendar year.
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Quaker A-Z: B is for Basic Credit Control
Micro-Learning: Basic Credit Control for Charities Keeping on top of payments, strengthening your cash flow, and reducing the risk of bad debt. Good credit control is one of the simplest ways a charity can improve its financial stability, yet it’s often overlooked. Whether you hire out rooms, run events, or provide services that require invoicing,
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Quaker A-Z: B is for Books
Photo by Jonas Jacobsson on Unsplash Books… B is for Books. For goodness sake, write it down! In this blog, we are taking inspiration from John McCutcheon’s storytelling folk songs: “Write it down so we’ll remember What is was we said I believe we really need to Summarize what we’ve agreed to Pass that paper
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Quaker A-Z: B is for Benefit
Edited Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash What do we mean by Benefits? Legally all charity trustees must work for the overall benefit of their charity. Your governing document will list the charity’s purposes, and any annual reports etc. should refer to them. However, all charity trustees must ‘have regard’ for the various charity acts
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Quaker A-Z: B is for BCC
Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash Sending emails… BCC (“blind carbon copy” – have you used carbon copying paper?) is now easy to do and doesn’t require physical winding down of actual paper on each letter sent! An email can be sent with three levels of recipient To: Original recipient CC: Someone who is “copied
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Quaker A-Z: B is for Better Banking
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. Banking is a complicated subject – often choosing a bank is based upon geographical location rather than ethical or other issues. How does a Meeting or a Finance Committee make decisions about which bank to use for day to day business,
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Quaker A-Z: B is for Buildings
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project click here for more information. B is for Building Records and Tours Building – perhaps if you read the last post you suspected that B might be for Building. However, I’m going to concentrate on two bits of caring for a building that I often see forgotten.
