Re: [Wikimediauk-l] AGM Resolutions
If we hit £5000 in the next year (which is highly likely whether we get wikimania or not) I highly doubt we are going to be able hang on till CIO's become available. I imagine we will simply have to go through the registered charity route despite the increased paperwork. -Original Message- From: Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com Sent: 04 March 2009 00:23 To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] AGM Resolutions 2009/3/4 Tom Holden thomas.hol...@gmail.com: In any case, we almost certainly want to be a charitable incorporated organisation, not a registered charity, due to the lower paper-work requirements. We'll apply to be one as soon as they're accepting applications and we have the time to write one. I think a CIO would be a type of registered charity. I'm not sure of the technicalities of the definitions. Regardless, CIO's aren't likely to be available for another year or so yet - they keep putting it back. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] AGM Resolutions
At 16:09 -0800 2/3/09, AndrewRT wrote: We're hoping to make the business side of the AGM as quick as possible, but does anyone have any resolutions they would like to be put to the meeting? At the moment the resolutions are: 1. Setting the maximum number of Directors to seven 2. Appointing those people elected under the Election Rules as directors 3. Setting the Membership fee to £12 per year and £6 for concessions 4. Entrenchment of Election Rules 5. Adoption of Membership Rules 6. Entrenchment of the Chapter Agreement (entrenchment is a legal term which means a future Board would be unable to repeal or revise them without the permission of the membership) Members will be able to vote by email for these if they prefer, or in person at the AGM. Full details are set out at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2009_AGM/Resolutions. Also, does anyone want to propose any amendment to any of these resolutions? Please let me know if you have anything you would like to raise. Where does the registered charity status and hence the application fit? At the AGM, or later? Gordo -- Think Feynman/ http://pobox.com/~gordo/ gordon.j...@pobox.com/// ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] AGM Resolutions
2009/3/3 AndrewRT ratur...@yahoo.co.uk: The Board has an action to register with the Charity Commission as soon as it's likely that our income will be more than £5,000 - which will be as soon were announced as the winning bid for Wikimania 2010 (- grin-), or, failing that, when our donations get to that level in I guess 1-2 years' time? I reckon we'll get more than £5k in the annual fundraiser next winter. If all the Wikimania sponsorship goes through us, we'll probably go over the next threshold and have to do audited annual reports and stuff... ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] AGM Resolutions
2009/3/3 AndrewRT ratur...@yahoo.co.uk: The Board has an action to register with the Charity Commission as soon as it's likely that our income will be more than £5,000 - which will be as soon were announced as the winning bid for Wikimania 2010 (- grin-), or, failing that, when our donations get to that level in I guess 1-2 years' time? Hmm. Frankly, I expect us to clear the £5000 threshold in a matter of months - there have been lots of expressions of interest over the years. We on the old Board considered full Charity status to be an absolute priority, and our failure to achieve it was what led the Board to close WMUK v.1 down in favour of re-starting. Yours, -- James D. Forrester jdforres...@wikimedia.org | jdforres...@gmail.com [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] AGM Resolutions
On Mar 3, 10:26 pm, James Forrester ja...@jdforrester.org wrote: 2009/3/3 AndrewRT ratur...@yahoo.co.uk: The Board has an action to register with the Charity Commission as soon as it's likely that our income will be more than £5,000 - which will be as soon were announced as the winning bid for Wikimania 2010 (- grin-), or, failing that, when our donations get to that level in I guess 1-2 years' time? Hmm. Frankly, I expect us to clear the £5000 threshold in a matter of months - there have been lots of expressions of interest over the years. We on the old Board considered full Charity status to be an absolute priority, and our failure to achieve it was what led the Board to close WMUK v.1 down in favour of re-starting. Yours, -- James D. Forrester Unfortunately, the Charities Commission are currently not considering applications for charitable status from organisations with a turnover of less than £5,000 per year unless there are exceptional circumstances: http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/publications/cc21.asp#32 65. We will only consider an application for registration from an organisation below the minimum income in exceptional circumstances. I'm afraid I think we have no choice but to wait until we're at that level - which as you say, hopefully won't be too long. regards, Andrew ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
