Resource
Advice and support for trustees and treasurers
A brief outline how Quaker Stewardship Committee can help role holders in meetings.
Quaker Stewardship Committee gives help, guidance and active monitoring to meet the requirements of charity law in the stewardship of finance and property, encouraging openness, accountability, transparency and integrity in all our affairs. (from Qfp 14.38)
Each area meeting and other meetings in a particular area are personally linked to a member of the committee – a 'Link Friend'.
Your Link Friend will
Help can be offered by
Link Friends will
Neil Jarvis can put you in touch with your Link Friend.
Area meetings and certain other bodies within Britain Yearly Meeting should send their annual report and accounts to Quaker Stewardship Committee as requested by Quaker faith & practice 4.10m (offsite link) via Neil Jarvis.
Clerks, elders and overseers, all those involved in the nominations process, trustees and treasurers can use the Advices & queries on Quaker Stewardship (PDF) to help reflection on how well they work together, to share responsibility and leadership.
Quaker Stewardship Committee recently asked area meetings about the effectiveness of its work. Here are the survey results and responses (PDF).
This project is a national survey of Quaker meeting houses commissioned by Quakers in Britain and Historic England. Reports for individual meeting house and a national overview can be found on the Heritage Project website.
Neil Jarvis
Staff link with Quaker Stewardship Committee
020 7663 1192
qsc@quaker.org.uk