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lynbarn ответил(а) в теме 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 июн 2025 в 22:52 -
lynbarn нравится сообщение 35B в теме 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 июн 2025 в 20:00 -
lynbarn ответил(а) в теме 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 июн 2025 в 19:17 -
lynbarn нравится сообщение ross в теме 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 июн 2025 в 19:12 -
lynbarn нравится сообщение RailWest в теме 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 июн 2025 в 15:38 -
lynbarn нравится сообщение 35B в теме 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 июн 2025 в 14:30 -
lynbarn нравится сообщение 35B в теме 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 июн 2025 в 14:30 -
lynbarn нравится сообщение 60044 в теме 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 июн 2025 в 14:29 -
lynbarn нравится сообщение 35B в теме 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 июн 2025 в 14:27 -
lynbarn нравится сообщение 35B в теме 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 июн 2025 в 14:27 -
lynbarn ответил(а) в теме 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 июн 2025 в 12:05 -
lynbarn нравится сообщение DaveE в теме 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 июн 2025 в 11:59 -
lynbarn нравится сообщение 35B в теме 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 июн 2025 в 11:33 -
lynbarn ответил(а) в теме 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 июн 2025 в 11:28 -
lynbarn нравится сообщение 35B в теме 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 июн 2025 в 10:37
