Be prepared

Judith Roads urges Friends to ‘Let’s hear it for assistant clerks everywhere!’

Nobody quite knows what an assistant clerk does, or should do. It’s the one question that always comes up on the Woodbrooke courses for new clerks and, of course, the answer is that it can be absolutely anything – or nothing – if the clerk is independent-minded and self-sufficient. So much depends on the relationship between the two Friends at the table. Assistant clerks are the most valuable people because they have to be so flexible.

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