2008/8/28 Alison Wheeler <wikimedia(a)alisonwheeler.com>om>:
On Thu, August 28, 2008 00:24, Thomas Dalton wrote:
The WMF would have control of the money once we
gave it to them. There
is a section on the charities commission website about charities
supporting foreign organisations, have you not read it it? It would
seem to be highly relevant to the chair of Wikimedia UK... Would you
like the URL?
Selective quoting or what!
You wrote: "For example, as a company there is nothing stopping us
sending money to the WMF (that I know of, at least, feel free to
correct me). As a charity, we can't do that because the trustees
wouldn't have control over that money."
and I pointed out that as a Charity *we* (not you) *can* do that as the
Trustees can decide to give money to the WMF, indeed possible methods of
doing so were discussed some time ago now at a Chapters meeting in
Frankfurt. The Trustees of the (WMUK) Charity can use the funds donated
for any purpose in line with the Objects.Indeed "3(e) to encourage the
adoption of practices and policies to widen education, participation and
dissemination of information worldwide;" was specifically written by me in
order that donations to WMF would be possible, so please don't suggest I
need a URL ...
I'll give you the URL anyway so that you can explain to me where I am
going wrong in my interpretation of it:
http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/supportingcharities/cwi.asp#9
That seems pretty clear to me. You have no control over what the WMF
does with the money, so it giving money to them would not count as
charitable. You can spend the money on things for the WMF (new
servers, for instance, which I believe the German chapter has done),
but you can't just hand over the cash.