2008/9/11 Andrew Cates <Andrew(a)soschildren.org>rg>:
I am sure you have looked at all possible structures
and so know this,
but there is an interchangability between UK and US charitable giving
which means a UK chapter is not strictly needed. It is fairly recent
so just in case people don't know:
CAFAmerica run a "friends of" program which allows UK charities offer
US tax eligibility to US donors (via the CAFAmerica registration which
is set up as a US charity giving money to UK charities) and CAF run a
program in the UK which allows UK donors to giftaid and reclaim tax on
donations to US charities such as WMF. If you want therefore only one
of these locations is needed.
This may be relatively heavy and costly in admin and there are other
implications but it does offer a strict alternative.
I didn't know that, and that's very interesting. There is more to a
chapter than just fundraising for WMF, though. It is something the WMF
should look into, though (it might harm WMUK's fundraising, but oh
well!).