Hi all,

 

We are considering cutting the membership fee to £5 flat. (It is currently £12 waged, £6 unwaged.)

 

We would like to expand membership before the AGM and we feel cutting the membership fee will help with this. It will also simplify our administration. We are planning to email everyone who donated during the fundraiser asking if they would like to become a member at this reduced rate, as well as emailing all current members asking if they would like to renew their membership at the new rate.

 

Does anyone object to this? We appreciate that some of you will have recently paid membership fees at the full rate, but if we are to make such a cut it is inevitable that some people will have paid the full rate in the months before the cut, and in the long-run everyone will benefit from it. If it is any consolation, all three of us board members who have been on the board from the start have already paid our dues for the year at the higher rate.

 

All comments are appreciated,

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Tom Holden

Treasurer, Wikimedia UK