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Task Description for a Managing Friend
by Judi Brill June 29, 2025

June 29, 2025

On behalf of a local meeting I am sending out this request for examples of a task description for an employee’s Managing Friend aka Line Manager. Please share any examples on the egroup if you have time. Many thanks Judi Judi Brill Wardenship Egroup Administrator Resident Warden Horfield Quaker Meeting 300 Gloucester Road Horfield Bristol BS7 8PD ///beyond.always.proof Tel: 0117 942 9142 Mob: 07967 558615 horfield.warden(a)bristolquakers.org.uk https://bristolquakers.org.uk/room-hire/room-hire-at-horfield/ -- *bristolquakers.org.uk* <http://bristolquakers.org.uk> Bristol Area Quaker Meeting is registered at Companies House as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation No CE011904 and is Registered Charity No 1175435 Registered Office: Horfield Quaker Meeting House, 300 Gloucester Road, Bristol, BS7 8PD

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Heat Strike
by John Dash June 26, 2025

June 26, 2025

See below from Ailish Carroll-Brentnall our QiB Faith in Action Coordinator John John Dash Property Management Advisor 020 7663 1055 (Direct) JohnD(a)quaker.org.uk From: Ailish Carroll-Brentnall <AilishC(a)quaker.org.uk> Sent: 25 June 2025 12:28 To: John Dash <JohnD(a)quaker.org.uk> Subject: RE: Heat Strike 🌡️ Heat Strike Campaign – Quaker Involvement Invitation 🌱🔥 As extreme heat becomes more dangerous each summer, Heat Strike is mobilising a broad coalition of unions, climate groups, and community organisations to take action for climate justice and worker protection. We’re inviting Quakers to get involved by working in your local communities to help set up Cool Stations❄️ during periods of extreme heat- places where people can rest, rehydrate and stay safe. Could your Meeting House🏠 be offered as a community cool hub? This is a practical, compassionate way to respond to the climate crisis and stand in solidarity with those most affected. 🖊️ Sign up via our website to stay in touch, contact us via email and access resources: 👉 https://heatstrike.uk/<https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fheatstrike.uk%2f&c=E,1,…>

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Re: Link Friend
by Lancaster Quakers June 23, 2025

June 23, 2025

Hello Renee I think there is some confusion. I sent a copy of the Link Friend Role Description in response to a request from someone on the Wardenship E-group. There is no vacancy and this is a role that is nominated to and the role holder is then appointed by the Local Quaker Meeting through the usual Quaker nominations and business process - it is neither a paid role nor a traditional volunteering role. I apologise for any confusion caused. All the best Tasha Natasha Heny Meeting House Manager (Warden) Lancaster Quaker Meeting House lancasterquakers(a)gmail.com 01524 62971 <https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=Lancaster+Quaker+Meeting…> (I work flexible hours over 5 days and have two days off each week) On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 at 17:00, Renee Santosa <reneesantosa(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello > > I recently received some information about the post of a link friend. I > know a friend who would be very interested in going to the Lake district to > live and work. > > The post however is hard to be clear, is it a paid position or > voluntary,wou;d there be accommodation or are you seeking a local person? > > Yours in friendship > > Renee >

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Notes from Meeting House Matters - Cardiff and online - 12 June 2025
by Oliver Waterhouse June 20, 2025

June 20, 2025

Ollie Waterhouse Quaker Life Hello everyone, I attach a copy of notes from the Meeting House Matters (MHM) session that took place at Cardiff Meeting House and online last week. The areas that we spent time on were. * Session 1: Where are we in the Quaker structure? What’s our support? * Session 2: Policies for meetings, lettings / hire, public liability insurance * Session 3: Exploring lone working – What is a lone worker? What support do lone workers need? (online, blended) There are still three MHM sessions this year and we will be looking at our theme of 'the support structures that keep Quaker communities running' throughout the rest of them. They are listed below. * Wednesday, 20 August (online) * Tuesday, 21 October (Darlington LM and online) to attend in person please register, https://forms.quaker.org.uk/mhm-25/ * Tuesday, 16 December (online) Join any of the online meetings using the following Zoom details, there is no need to register. * Join Zoom Meeting: https://quaker.zoom.us/j/81586087624?pwd=aYxukeWCrw0Z80E9OuxIuJuZvXr8do.1 * Meeting ID: 815 8608 7624 * Passcode: MHM-online In friendship, Ollie Oliver Waterhouse (he/him) Quaker Life Team Leader, Local and Area Governance Quakers in Britain 020 7663 1007 (Direct) oliverw(a)quaker.org.uk<mailto:oliverw@quaker.org.uk> | www.quaker.org.uk<http://www.quaker.org.uk/> Book time with me (30 minutes)<https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/45557f13eb1a45d5810a699f5ccf952d…> (15 minutes)<https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/45557f13eb1a45d5810a699f5ccf952d…> Follow Quakers in Britain on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/BritishQuakers>, YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/quakersinbritain>, Instagram<https://www.instagram.com/britishquakers/> and Bluesky<https://bsky.app/profile/britishquakers.bsky.social>. The Quaker Centre Bookshop and Café<https://www.friendshouse.co.uk/quaker-centre/> are open to the public. Friends House is open for meetings and events. All enquiries welcome to events(a)quaker.org.uk<mailto:events@quaker.org.uk> or www.friendshouse.co.uk/booking-enquiry. If you would like to support our work, you can give online at www.quaker.org.uk/donate. Britain Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) Registered charity number 1127633 | Friends House, 173 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BJ ________________________________ Quakers say: Religion is about the whole of life.

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toilet signage
by Wendrie Heywood June 18, 2025

June 18, 2025

Hello Friends, Was asked if any meeting house is thinking of changing their signs for toilet facilities either in response to the ECHR guidelines or the recent statement on toilet facilities by Paul Parker at Yearly Meeting. You can read that statement of policy at that link <https://www.quaker.org.uk/documents/statement-of-policy-on-provision-of-tra…> . The client who asked has a small building with two signposted bathrooms and one accessible, and has been planning a refurbishment for a couple of years. Are people thinking of moving forward to individual toilet cubicles? Has anyone already done this? Yours in peace, Wendrie Heywood Founder | Mindful Business Services Ltd Book a meeting with me <https://calendly.com/mindful-business-services> *Don't miss our next training workshop - sign up here <https://mindfulbusinessservices.com/events>* [image: mobilePhone] 02036912389 [image: emailAddress] wendrie(a)mindfulbusinessservices.com [image: website] www.mindfulbusinessservices.com [image: facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/MindfulBusinessServices> [image: linkedin] <https://www.linkedin.com/company/mindful-business-services-limited> Sign up for our newsletter <https://mindfulbusinessservices.com/newsletter>

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QVA retreat at Rookhow in August
by Rookhow June 16, 2025

June 16, 2025

*Please forward this to people in your Meeting or anyone who you think would be interested, thanks.* *Quaker Voluntary Action (QVA) Retreat at Rookhow: 25th-29th August* [image: June 2023 larch trees T.jpg] Rookhow is hosting a Quaker Voluntary Action (QVA) retreat from Monday 25th-Friday 29th August. Half retreat; half work party in Quakers' Wood,12 acres of temperate rainforest and ancient oak woodland. A chance to meet with Friends from across the UK and beyond and unwind in the peaceful setting of Rookhow with its 300 year old simple Quaker Meeting House: MORE INFO & BOOK <https://qva.org.uk/rookhow/> [image: young volunteers at Rookhow June 2024 T.jpg] Anybody wishing to attend needs to complete the booking form, and should note if they are not staying overnight or just coming for the day. Full residential fee - £325 Non-overnight fee - £210 Fee per day - £45 Anybody who would like to come but for whom the cost is a barrier, please contact kitking(a)qva.org.uk for information about the QVA Bursary Scheme. [image: June 2023 2T.jpg] Best wishes, Sue & Kath *Sue Nicholls (she/her)* *Rookhow Development Manager* *Kath Becker (she/her)* *Rookhow Assistant Development Worker* *Rookhow phone number: 07377 971783* Email: contactrookhow(a)gmail.com Website: rookhow.org.uk Donations link: DONATE TO ROOKHOW <https://cafdonate.cafonline.org/14988> *Sue works part time (25 hour per week) flexi-time Monday-Friday.* *Kath works part time (35 hours per month) **flexi-time Monday-Friday* *Rookhow is a registered Charitable Incorporated Organisation: Charity No 1188409. **We put 5% of our bookings income into subsidising stays for community groups. **Rookhow is a Quaker Recognised Body.* [image: Rookhow logo.png] [image: image.png] Rookhow <https://www.facebook.com/Rookhow1725/> [image: image.png] Rookhow1725 <https://www.instagram.com/rookhow1725/> [image: image.png] Independent Hostels <https://independenthostels.co.uk/members/rookhowbunkbarn/>

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Meeting House Matters - Thursday, 12 June 2pm - Blended session on Lone Working
by Oliver Waterhouse June 11, 2025

June 11, 2025

Dear Friends, I hope you are well. There is going to be a Meeting House Matters blended session tomorrow afternoon, 12 June at 2pm. The topic for this session is going to be Lone Working. There is not need to book to attend the session, just join using the Zoom login details below. * Join Zoom Meeting: https://quaker.zoom.us/j/81586087624?pwd=aYxukeWCrw0Z80E9OuxIuJuZvXr8do.1 * Meeting ID: 815 8608 7624 * Passcode: MHM-online I hope to see you if you can join the session. In friendship, Ollie Oliver Waterhouse (he/him) Quaker Life Team Leader, Local and Area Governance Quakers in Britain 020 7663 1007 (Direct) oliverw(a)quaker.org.uk<mailto:oliverw@quaker.org.uk> | www.quaker.org.uk<http://www.quaker.org.uk/> Book time with me (30 minutes)<https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/45557f13eb1a45d5810a699f5ccf952d…> (15 minutes)<https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/45557f13eb1a45d5810a699f5ccf952d…> Follow Quakers in Britain on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/BritishQuakers>, YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/quakersinbritain>, Instagram<https://www.instagram.com/britishquakers/> and Bluesky<https://bsky.app/profile/britishquakers.bsky.social>. The Quaker Centre Bookshop and Café<https://www.friendshouse.co.uk/quaker-centre/> are open to the public. Friends House is open for meetings and events. All enquiries welcome to events(a)quaker.org.uk<mailto:events@quaker.org.uk> or www.friendshouse.co.uk/booking-enquiry. If you would like to support our work, you can give online at www.quaker.org.uk/donate. Britain Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) Registered charity number 1127633 | Friends House, 173 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BJ ________________________________ Quakers say: Religion is about the whole of life.

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Door entry security systems
by lancasterquakers＠gmail.com June 3, 2025

June 3, 2025

Dear Friends In light of the recent thread about security etc, and another intruder here a week last Saturday, Lancaster Friends have decided its time to investigate a door entry security system. Has anyone had a new system installed recently and if so do you have any insights that would be helpful to us? We are not staffed all the time we're open, which leaves users, staff, and the building vulnerable. We would like to have a system that allows the front door to be kept locked and hirers given codes that are individual to them, changeable, time sensitive, and the potential for staff and volunteers to have a 'dongle' allow easy access. Finances allowing, it would be even better if there were security cameras as part of the system, but not essential. I'm probably using all the wrong words as I'm 'running on empty' already this week, but hopefully you'll understand the gist. Any thoughts, suggestions, or insights would be very much appreciated. All the best Tasha Natasha Heny Meeting House Manager (Warden) Lancaster Quaker Meeting House lancasterquakers(a)gmail.com 01524 62971 (I work flexible hours over 5 days and have two days off each week)

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Google has a question for us all
by Wendrie Heywood June 3, 2025

June 3, 2025

Hello Friends, MBS gets a Google search index sent to us every month. Listing what queries were used to find our website (do recommend this - and it's fairly easy to do, let me know if you're interested). This month's report (for May) made me chuckle, the question was: 'is quaker warden a real thing' So Friends? What do you think? Yours in peace, Wendrie Heywood Founder | Mindful Business Services Ltd Book a meeting with me <https://calendly.com/mindful-business-services> *Don't miss our next training workshop - sign up here <https://mindfulbusinessservices.com/events>* [image: mobilePhone] 02036912389 [image: emailAddress] wendrie(a)mindfulbusinessservices.com [image: website] www.mindfulbusinessservices.com [image: facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/MindfulBusinessServices> [image: linkedin] <https://www.linkedin.com/company/mindful-business-services-limited> Sign up for our newsletter <https://mindfulbusinessservices.com/newsletter>

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Re: toilet signage
by Klaus Huber June 1, 2025

June 1, 2025

In Bradford on Avon we got rid of separate 'gents' and 'ladies' toilet blocks back in 2002/03 when we had a big redevelopment, and replaced them with individual unisex toilet cubicles (3 standard, 1 accessible). Our main meeting room now stretches into the area that used to be the 'gents'. By the way, I find the phrase "self-contained, and therefore single-sex" in the linked document rather confusing. My first reaction was: shouldn't it therefore non-sex-specific? or unisex? or whatever you want to call it? Okay, after thinking it through a bit, I understand that what is meant is that if you use the self-contained cubicle for its intended purpose, it will never be used by people of more than one sex or gender at the same time - but I feel that it required a bit of twisting my brain to get there. Best wishes, Klaus Huber Resident Warden, Bradford on Avon On Sun, Jun 1, 2025 at 7:02 AM Tessa Brown via wardenship < wardenship(a)lists.quaker.eu.org> wrote: > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Tessa Brown <tessa.brown3(a)btinternet.com> > To: "n.heny42" <n.heny42(a)gmail.com> > Cc: Wendrie Heywood <wendrie(a)mindfulbusinessservices.com>, Quaker > Wardenship Support <wardenship(a)lists.quaker.eu.org> > Bcc: > Date: Sat, 31 May 2025 21:47:11 +0100 > Subject: [wardenship] Re: toilet signage > When Lewes Meeting had extensive work done 18 months ago it chose to have > non-designated toilets plus a fully accessible bathroom for wheelchair > users. Non of our hirers have any issues with this arrangement. > > Tessa Brown > > Sent from my iPad > > On 31 May 2025, at 10:14, n.heny42 <n.heny42(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Wendrie > > In Lancaster we have 5 individual self contained toilet cubicles, 3 are on > the ground floor, one of which is wheelchair accessible; none of those 5 > are gender specific. Then we have one assigned space for women with 2 > cubicles and one assigned space for men, with just one cubicle. Last year > we got rid of the urinal that was in that space in order to reconfigure the > area to add some storage space for Trustees documents. I questioned why > we had specifically assigned toilets, whether we could make better use of > the area the 2 rooms with a total of 3 assigned toilet cubicles etc take up > and just create 3 self contained, non assigned toilets, and a kitchenette > and storage space. It was agreed that would be better use of the space, > but some Friends felt it was important to retain the few assigned toilets, > for those who 'needed' them. We do not monitor, in any way whatsoever, who > uses which toilets. And I have never heard any of our users make any > complaint or comment about our toilet facilities (other than delight that > they're always clean). > > All the best > > Tasha > > > Natasha Heny > 07752920337 > > Meeting House Manager > Lancaster > (From my personal email address) > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Wendrie Heywood <wendrie(a)mindfulbusinessservices.com> > Date: 30/05/2025 17:53 (GMT+00:00) > To: Quaker Wardenship Support <wardenship(a)lists.quaker.eu.org> > Subject: [wardenship] toilet signage > > Hello Friends, > > Was asked if any meeting house is thinking of changing their signs for > toilet facilities either in response to the ECHR guidelines or the recent > statement on toilet facilities by Paul Parker at Yearly Meeting. > > You can read that statement of policy at that link > <https://www.quaker.org.uk/documents/statement-of-policy-on-provision-of-tra…> > . > > The client who asked has a small building with two signposted bathrooms > and one accessible, and has been planning a refurbishment for a couple of > years. > > Are people thinking of moving forward to individual toilet cubicles? Has > anyone already done this? > > Yours in peace, > > Wendrie Heywood > > Founder | Mindful Business Services Ltd > > Book a meeting with me <https://calendly.com/mindful-business-services> > > *Don't miss our next training workshop - sign up here > <https://mindfulbusinessservices.com/events>* > [image: mobilePhone] 02036912389 > [image: emailAddress] wendrie(a)mindfulbusinessservices.com > [image: website] www.mindfulbusinessservices.com > [image: facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/MindfulBusinessServices> > [image: linkedin] > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/mindful-business-services-limited> > Sign up for our newsletter > <https://mindfulbusinessservices.com/newsletter> > _______________________________________________ > wardenship mailing list -- wardenship(a)lists.quaker.eu.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wardenship-leave(a)lists.quaker.eu.org > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Tessa Brown via wardenship <wardenship(a)lists.quaker.eu.org> > To: "n.heny42" <n.heny42(a)gmail.com> > Cc: Wendrie Heywood <wendrie(a)mindfulbusinessservices.com>, Quaker > Wardenship Support <wardenship(a)lists.quaker.eu.org>, Tessa Brown < > tessa.brown3(a)btinternet.com> > Bcc: > Date: Sat, 31 May 2025 21:47:11 +0100 > Subject: [wardenship] Re: toilet signage > _______________________________________________ > wardenship mailing list -- wardenship(a)lists.quaker.eu.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wardenship-leave(a)lists.quaker.eu.org > -- Klaus Huber Warden Bradford on Avon Quaker Meeting House 1 Whiteheads Lane, Bradford on Avon BA15 1JU Tel. 01225 865393 bradfordonavonquakers.weebly.com

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