Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:52:31 +0100> From:
wikimedia(a)alisonwheeler.com> To: wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re:
[Wikimediauk-l] Charity and Bank account information> > On Thu, August 28, 2008
00:43, Thomas Dalton wrote:> > 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.> > If a Charity (any Charity) makes a grant to
"something else" be that a> person, an organisation, whatever, in line with
its Objects then the> Charity has carried out its task of using the money correctly.
There is no> requirement to have particular things done with that cash
post-donation> (though it would be normal for a report on how the money was used to
be> made available to a funder).> > The way you seem to be suggesting things
would seem to encompass the> initial receiving Charity having control over the cash it
receives and> gives out until .. well, when? forever, it seems.> > The
Deutschland chapter has specific issues with using money outside of> the country under
German law, which do not apply here to the same extent.> > Alison> > >
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