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lynbarn antwortete auf das Thema Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
Your figures are about right, so I ask the question: how do we suggest we improve the odds? This report might help https://www.ncvo.org.uk/documents/624/understanding_trustee_recruitment_and_retention_challenges.pdf
12 Juni 2025 um 22:52 -
lynbarn gefällt 35Bs Beitrag in dem Thema Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
Just to observe the "another church in the next village" is exactly what you describe about railways - and if people leave their local church, there are good odds they won't land at another, especially if its in another village. The answer in...
12 Juni 2025 um 20:00 -
lynbarn antwortete auf das Thema Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
Well, if working on the real stuff no longer floats your boat, you could always do what a lot of folk of a certain age are doing, and that is to set up your private model railway, which I am told (by a local model shop) is becoming more popular...
12 Juni 2025 um 19:17 -
lynbarn gefällt rosss Beitrag in dem Thema Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
What was his day job? What was his home life? What was his Dad like? If the telephone at work had only ever been a problem, If he found people difficult and trying to deal with, for whatever reason, you can see why he was how he was. I've known...
12 Juni 2025 um 19:12 -
lynbarn gefällt RailWests Beitrag in dem Thema Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
I knew someone once who was quite happy to be up to his elbows in muck and grease fixing bits of locomotives etc - basically anything that ran on wheels and was steam-powered - for every hour that he had available to spare. Along the way he made...
12 Juni 2025 um 15:38 -
lynbarn gefällt 35Bs Beitrag in dem Thema Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
It's also that decisions have long run consequences. And, as the L&B would likely be the beneficiary, that raises the question of "which bit of the L&B" - and again, what might I wish to give long run support to
12 Juni 2025 um 14:30 -
lynbarn gefällt 35Bs Beitrag in dem Thema Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
That may be true of the L&B, but I'm a PCC member (=trustee) and we manage to sustain a PCC of 15 on a much lower "membership", and where volunteering is significantly higher. It's a different kind of organisation so not directly comparable, but...
12 Juni 2025 um 14:30 -
lynbarn gefällt 60044s Beitrag in dem Thema Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
That saddens me, at a time when it is obvious that the NYMR needs every penny it can get; my own solution has been to make my bequest to the LNERCA which ought to be to the ultimate benefit of the NYMR, but as they no longer seem to aspire to...
12 Juni 2025 um 14:29 -
lynbarn gefällt 35Bs Beitrag in dem Thema Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
That doesn’t alter the significance of @lynbarn’s question - if you have no trustees, you ultimately have no charity. If a church can’t recruit a minimum number of officers, that means closure’s on the cards. The same goes for trustees
12 Juni 2025 um 14:27 -
lynbarn gefällt 35Bs Beitrag in dem Thema Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
I’d start with a simple question about why people don’t volunteer as trustees - time, energy and responsibility. There’s a lot there, and it won’t suit many.
12 Juni 2025 um 14:27 -
lynbarn antwortete auf das Thema Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
Yes, I agree, and it is a question as old as the hills, why are there so many trustee vacancies, and just what are the various groups doing about it, it is all very well saying one thing and not doing anything about encouraging people to get...
12 Juni 2025 um 12:05 -
lynbarn gefällt DaveEs Beitrag in dem Thema Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
The lack of volunteers and the changes over the years in trends doesn't just apply to the person on the platform, the drivers, the gardeners etc, it also applies to volunteer management. it is estimated there are currently 90,000 trustee...
12 Juni 2025 um 11:59 -
lynbarn gefällt 35Bs Beitrag in dem Thema Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
That doesn't make the case not worth making. But you do remind me that I need to revisit the list of residuary legatees in my will to align with my memberships. Which would be to NYMR's loss.
12 Juni 2025 um 11:33 -
lynbarn antwortete auf das Thema Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
Something else about culture which I think also needs to be addressed, and not only at the L&BRT, and that is we have two, or more, types of culture all working together or not. As the case may be, they are:- 1 Experienced third sector...
12 Juni 2025 um 11:28 -
lynbarn gefällt 35Bs Beitrag in dem Thema Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
All of which takes us back round to the need to focus on what membership is there for, and good change management where a strong pre-existing culture exists that is to be changed. In the context of the L&BRT, for example, that means respecting...
12 Juni 2025 um 10:37
