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QUID
(Quaker Union of Investors and Depositors)

1 April, 2006


PRESS RELEASE

This year we celebrate our one hundredth anniversary, because we were established in 1906.

We feel that it is timely to draw Friends’ attention to what we do:

Membership is available to treasurers of PMs and MMs who have been extant for at least 14 years. We have a junior section for beginners with lesser service.

We supply backs of envelopes for the keeping of accounts (we are proud of being pioneers in seeing the recycling opportunities with used envelopes). We did supply cigarette packets for the same purpose, but this has been discontinued as part of our support for the no-smoking campaign.

We are concerned that treasurers are an endangered species, and we steadfastly resist the attempts by nominations committees to organise culls every three years.

We organise recuperative week-ends where treasurers are strengthened in their resolve to resist all expenditure and robustly pursue income.

We do not participate in any way in treasurer training; we believe that treasurers are part of creation (possibly of intelligent design).

Our reputation has given rise to expressions such as “we are quids in” – meaning that we have achieved a positive financial outcome – as will always be the case when one of our members is “doing their thing” (see we also use modern speak).