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: O is for Open Outreach Operations
Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash Are you open for outreach operations? Last Wednesday (at the second of this month’s free training/webinar sessions), we talked about how a meeting, or any charity, should be open to others. Especially open to those around them who might want to find them and join or support them. We
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Quaker A-Z: N is for Numbers
Flipchart from Alison Gray’s presentation. Or Finances – for those who don’t like numbers! Spreadsheets can be complicated and off putting. Trying to explain who spends what, and why it’s important that we know who spends what and when they spend it can be tricky to get across. ‘We don’t need a budget‘ is something
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Quaker A-Z: M is for Membership
Membership is a tricky word Quakers talk about Membership (note the capital M) and mean someone who has formally been recorded as a member of a specific Area Meeting. But in this post, I’m thinking about what helps us feel that we belong to a worshiping community – whether or not we’ve been formally recorded.
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Quaker A-Z: L is for Legal Obligations
Coulda, Shoulda, Maybe list MBS is often asked to review policies for clients, and as part of that someone will say, ‘make sure we have what we need‘ or similar. Sadly, the Charity Commission doesn’t supply a simple or straightforward list of policies and procedures that you need to legally have. Instead, they expect you
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Quaker A-Z: K is for Knitting
Photo by Stephane Gagnon on Unsplash Avoiding dropped stitches Annual reports are often a cobbling together of bits from various people, groups or committees, with a bit at the front from the clerk or chair and then at the end from the treasurer or trustee with financial responsibility…. Even listing out all the people involved
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Quaker A-Z: J is for Joyful
Photo by Lina Trochez on Unsplash ‘Spark Joy’ Do you look forward to the next Trustees’ meeting? When you are creating an agenda: Do you purposefully add things to make people smile? Or to encourage getting to know each other as people and not only representatives or nominated/elected additions to your group? Do you have
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Quaker A-Z: I is for Information
Information and information overload One difficulty for many new trustees – or even experienced ones – is information overload. There is just so much to be known, and there is the fear that you’ve not learned something important, or have learned something that isn’t correct or doesn’t apply to your charity. Photo by Giulia May
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Quaker A-Z: H is for Honorarium
What is an honorarium? An honorarium is a voluntary fee for voluntary service, a usually small sum of money given to someone as a token of esteem for some work they’ve done. It’s another name for a gift, fee, or some form of payment for services rendered. An honorarium is an ex gratia payment, i.e.,
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Quaker A-Z: G is for Good Governance
What is Good Governance? Governance is the process of decision-making and the process by which those decisions are implemented or not. Governance is used in a range of contexts from international law, the running of countries down to the most local level. In each context there will be a range of people or organisations involved
