To summarise - your board are giving this a high priority, but there is no "magic bullet" of just spending money on lawyers or working harder. Wikimedia Australia have been reliably informed that they need an act of Parliament to get their charity status. Hopefully we
can avoid this but there are few precedents.
The ideas that we have for spending money require management, description and the necessary volunteers to staff them. The board cannot be reasonably be expected to supply all, or any, of these but they do have an obligation to make sure that they all exist. As Chris has noted we have refused few (if any) applications. You guys have the power to spend money faster if you can find the time to justify how we can spend money with credible objectives.
cheers Roger Bamkin
On 22 June 2011 20:35, Gordon Joly
<gordon.joly@pobox.com> wrote:
On 22/06/2011 09:58, Martin Poulter wrote:
> Just to be clear, the Board are giving charity status the highest
> priority- you can take that as given.
Many thanks. Looking out for timescales, outlook, snags, changes in
legislation and the rest.
Gordon
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Roger Bamkin
(aka Victuallers)