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lynbarn a răspuns la subiectul 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 Iun 2025 la 22:52 -
lynbarn a plăcut postul lui 35B în subiectul 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 Iun 2025 la 20:00 -
lynbarn a răspuns la subiectul 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 Iun 2025 la 19:17 -
lynbarn a plăcut postul lui ross în subiectul 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 Iun 2025 la 19:12 -
lynbarn a plăcut postul lui RailWest în subiectul 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 Iun 2025 la 15:38 -
lynbarn a plăcut postul lui 35B în subiectul 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 Iun 2025 la 14:30 -
lynbarn a plăcut postul lui 35B în subiectul 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 Iun 2025 la 14:30 -
lynbarn a plăcut postul lui 60044 în subiectul 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 Iun 2025 la 14:29 -
lynbarn a plăcut postul lui 35B în subiectul 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 Iun 2025 la 14:27 -
lynbarn a plăcut postul lui 35B în subiectul 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 Iun 2025 la 14:27 -
lynbarn a răspuns la subiectul 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 Iun 2025 la 12:05 -
lynbarn a plăcut postul lui DaveE în subiectul 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 Iun 2025 la 11:59 -
lynbarn a plăcut postul lui 35B în subiectul 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 Iun 2025 la 11:33 -
lynbarn a răspuns la subiectul 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 Iun 2025 la 11:28 -
lynbarn a plăcut postul lui 35B în subiectul 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 Iun 2025 la 10:37
