Dear Nick Thanks to members of this forum we have been using a card reader for the past ten months. We only use it when people are giving donations, we don't (yet?) have the capacity to accept room hire invoices to be paid using the reader. We use the card reader for donations towards BYM/QiB, Local Meeting, in theory Area Meeting funds, as well as special collections and fundraising towards Meeting House funds (we have had to do some significant Fire Safety etc upgrades to the building over the past year, and the card reader has proved popular for the events that Friends have been holding). I had hoped there would be more use than there has been, particularly when Friends donate towards the refreshments. I'd thought it would be a way to cut down the staff time counting the change Friends find at the bottom of their purses and pockets that end up in that donation bowl; we also pay for each cash deposit, so I was hoping that charge would decrease, but sadly not. However, Friends are still getting to grips with it, and the use is slightly less dependent on the very few people who know how to use it being next to the reader each Sunday to help. As a member of the Meeting said recently, we don't want to discourage cash use completely, as that would disenfranchise those who have the least, but I would welcome less lose change, and more considered approaches to giving. So, in short, I have no answers to your question about how to encourage Friends to use the reader more, but I am interested to hear if others have. All the best Tasha Natasha Heny Meeting House Manager (Warden) Lancaster Quaker Meeting House lancasterquakers@gmail.com https://lancasterquakers.org.uk/room-hire/ 015246291 07506321033 (I work flexible hours over 5 days and have two days off each week) *Christmas and New Year Closure: Please note we will be closed to ALL external bookings between Saturday 20 December 2025 to Sunday 4 January 2026 inclusive (ie we will reopen on Monday 5th January). All Quaker events, activities and Meeting For Worship will continue as planned. There will be no staff on duty and emails will not be monitored during the period of closure. * On Fri, 21 Nov 2025 at 11:14, Nick <warden@littlehamptonquakers.org.uk> wrote:
Dear Wardens, We are reviewing the use of our card reader after 6 months. Use of our card reader has so far been sporadic, and I have been asked to ask the group, for those of you that use a card reader, do you use the card reader solely for meeting house funds, or do you use it for appeal collections? Any suggestions welcome to encourage more use! Many thanks, Nick Wriglesworth Warden, Littlehampton
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