Quaker Finances
Jun. 17th, 2024 07:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo We had the Area Treasurer come to our Meeting yesterday to talk about money- how the Society generates it, how it circulates round the system and how we could do with more.....
Jim- who has a way of cutting to brass tacks- asked how much each individual should be giving to put the Society in a sweet place. This is how the Treasurer broke it down.
The Sussex East area- which is more or less coterminous with East Sussex but not quite- has nine Meetings. Those nine Meetings have a combined Membership of 250 (approx), Some of those Members are inactive, but if you add in regular attenders the figure still comes to about 250. And 250 turns out to be the magic number- because when all the sums are completed £250 p.a. is what each of us should be giving.
£250 p.a. doesn't seem a lot.....
Of course, not everyone can afford that much, but Quakers, generally speaking, are reasonably well off- while some of us are rich and can/could be giving way over that amount and not feel it.
In a nutshell, we shouldn't be angsting over money- we really shouldn't....
Jim- who has a way of cutting to brass tacks- asked how much each individual should be giving to put the Society in a sweet place. This is how the Treasurer broke it down.
The Sussex East area- which is more or less coterminous with East Sussex but not quite- has nine Meetings. Those nine Meetings have a combined Membership of 250 (approx), Some of those Members are inactive, but if you add in regular attenders the figure still comes to about 250. And 250 turns out to be the magic number- because when all the sums are completed £250 p.a. is what each of us should be giving.
£250 p.a. doesn't seem a lot.....
Of course, not everyone can afford that much, but Quakers, generally speaking, are reasonably well off- while some of us are rich and can/could be giving way over that amount and not feel it.
In a nutshell, we shouldn't be angsting over money- we really shouldn't....
