Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Gift Aid update

2009-03-23 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/3/23 James Hardy : > regarding Registered Charity Status > > 2009/3/22 Thomas Dalton >> >>   It's not, but getting it soon is. You need an annual income of over >> £5000 to register, we're not likely to get that kind of money (or >> pledges for it) for several months at least without includin

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Gift Aid update

2009-03-23 Thread James Hardy
regarding Registered Charity Status 2009/3/22 Thomas Dalton > It's not, but getting it soon is. You need an annual income of over > £5000 to register, we're not likely to get that kind of money (or > pledges for it) for several months at least without including > Wikimania sponsorship. > Exac

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Gift Aid update

2009-03-23 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/3/23 Gordon Joly : > It is important for a local authority or a registered charity to be > prudent The regulators said there was nothing wrong with the Icelandic banks - I think going with what the regulators say is sufficient to satisfy the duty of care. Anyway, this is massively off-to

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Gift Aid update

2009-03-23 Thread Gordon Joly
At 13:18 + 23/3/09, Thomas Dalton wrote: >2009/3/23 Gordon Joly : >> At 22:31 + 22/3/09, Thomas Dalton wrote: >>>2009/3/22 Gordon Joly : Also recall how local authorities got their fingers burned in Iceland... >>> >>>That wasn't due to risky investments, that was due to putting your

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Gift Aid update

2009-03-23 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/3/23 Gordon Joly : > At 22:31 + 22/3/09, Thomas Dalton wrote: >>2009/3/22 Gordon Joly : >>>  Also recall how local authorities got their fingers burned in Iceland... >> >>That wasn't due to risky investments, that was due to putting your >>money in a bank that then went bust. Hardly their

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedia Loves Art?

2009-03-23 Thread Gordon Joly
At 08:45 + 23/3/09, David Gerard wrote: >2009/3/22 Gordon Joly : > >> This whole project has really been thought through... > > >It got a bucketload of images, so it achieved its aims ;-p > > >- d. Yup! But then so did the FLICKR bots who trawled FLICKR for images with a suitable licence (do

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Gift Aid update

2009-03-23 Thread Gordon Joly
At 22:31 + 22/3/09, Thomas Dalton wrote: >2009/3/22 Gordon Joly : >> Also recall how local authorities got their fingers burned in Iceland... > >That wasn't due to risky investments, that was due to putting your >money in a bank that then went bust. Hardly their fault. > >_ O

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedia Loves Art?

2009-03-23 Thread David Gerard
2009/3/22 Gordon Joly : > This whole project has really been thought through... It got a bucketload of images, so it achieved its aims ;-p - d. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki