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
