Tag: Quaker A-Z
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 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: A is for Accurate Accounts
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. I like the poster above, it can be taken in so many ways. At first you might think this is referring to the types of accounts that the treasurers have to keep. This is very important and as all Quaker meetings
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An Explanation of the Quaker Alphabet Blog project for 2015
I’m joining in with the Quaker A-Z blog event, where Quakers from all walks of life are coming together to share ideas, linked only by our Quakerism and the format of publishing blog posts from A-Z. Just like last year’s series, this is a hodgepodge of ideas and views ranging from serious to fun. To
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Quaker A-Z: Z is for Zipped
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. Z is for Zipped No, not coats but files. Large files often need to be shared amongst a committee. With people creating photo and graphic heavy documents, often across a variety of platforms and programmes, there are more opportunities for problems
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Quaker A-Z: Y is for Young and Young at Heart
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. Y is for Young and Young-at-Heart A meeting should reflect the community surrounding it – and it should ideally be an all age community. A&Q 18 says: How can we make the meeting a community in which each person is accepted
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Quaker A-Z: X marks the spot
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. X marks the spot – part one X marks the spot for signatures. Do you have room hire contracts? Are they for set periods of time or a license for part of the building? Do you have full names and addresses
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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: U is for Understanding and Undervalued
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. U is for Understanding From Quaker.org.uk/wardens: Many Quaker meetings appoint wardens, resident Friends, caretakers, managers, other employees or volunteers to manage, or work in meeting house premises and grounds. The nature of these roles varies according to the circumstances of individual
