I will contact the Charities Commission tomorrow to clarify this.

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> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:52:31 +0100
> From: wikimedia@alisonwheeler.com
> To: wikimediauk-l@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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