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Putting our money where our hearts are
My Local Meeting made a rather canny decision this month We were choosing what to do with our modest pot of money which, once a year, is given to the soup kitchens, refugee centres and charities with which we have affinity Someone in the Meeting said: ‘Our own work is suffering and only Quakers will give to that’
It was a fair point Although not known to be numerate, I made a simple back-of-the-envelope calculation If Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) tries to raise £2m each year, then the approximately 15,000 members would need to fork out £133 a year (though Gift Aid would make it go further) Of course, most Friends won’t be parting with anything like that sum, even though some may exceed it, and there is no ‘party line’ to enforce it I know from worrying about the Friend subscriptions that amounts over £30 cause people to think hard, particularly in these times
Judy Kirby and Chuck Fager
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