[Wikimediauk-l] Tax issues

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 After speaking to a family friend who has been a board-member of several large and well-known British charities, she recommended that we should talk both to the Charities Commission and to the National Council for Voluntary Organisations. Anyone feel like joining me to try going there for advice at some point? A group of three would probably work out best. Anyway, more on this at the wikimeet, perhaps? Further, she said some good things: firstly, that we wouldn't need to set up separate charities for S and NI over the E&W one (not sure about RoI); and, secondly, that there are definitely legal and Charities Commission-approved ways of granting monies to overseas charities as we'd want to do with the WMF. She also said that it is normal to have dissolution proceedure with a named charity for all residual assets to go to, even an overseas one (whereas article 19 of the proposed by-laws says merely that the liquidators will get to decide). Yours sincerely, - -- James D. Forrester Wikimedia : [[W:en:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] E-Mail : james(a)jdforrester.org IM (MSN) : jamesdforrester(a)hotmail.com