On 29 April 2012 13:30, Chris Keating <chriskeatingwiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Not quite carte blanche. Surely "such charitable purposes" does limit them
to spending the money on things that would be
deemed charitable in UK law.
Well, quite!
The main purpose of Trustees is to make sure the organisation only spends
money in pursuit of its charitable objectives. Which means there are many
many things we can't do.
Chris
On this issue I would argue along the same lines as I did on accepting
in-kind donations: We have trustees for a reason - to exercise their human
wisdom on things that are not absolutely black and white! If they aren't
given the freedom to pursue the objectives of WMUK their way, we may as
well have robots on the board.
Deryck
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