In addition to the charity status already mentioned (which is extremely concerning in its absence), I'm concerned about the budget. Recruiting just a CEO (or whatever they end up being called - please don't forget that "Chapter Manager" was agreed as a placeholder name by the last board and shouldn't be used as the final name without a lot of thought. I still think a more standard name that outsiders will understand is needed) and an office manager and then letting the CEO handle the recruitment of the rest of the staff was originally my preferred strategy. I changed my mind when I saw how much money we were making in the last fundraiser and realised that we needed to speed things up.
If you go along with your preferred strategy, especially getting off to such a slow start (I know that's partly the fault of the last board, and take my share of the blame, but the new board was formed 2 months ago and hasn't moved particularly fast so far), then you are going to massively underspend on budget. What is the plan to deal with that? The charity commission aren't going to be impressed if we're raising lots of money and not spending it.
On 15 June 2011 20:03, Chris Keating chriskeatingwiki@gmail.com wrote:
Dear all, There is a brief write-up of the Board's two-day-long face-to-face meeting last weekend, up on our blog: http://bit.ly/jTHRLi
Key highlights are;
- we're going ahead with advertising for two staff, a Chapter Manager and an
Office Manager
- we've committed ourselves to participating in the 2011 Wikimedia
Fundraiser
- we did a lot of useful work that's necessary for the development of a
long-term strategy - we'll share this with you guys shortly (we're waiting for the notes to be typed up!)
There will be more details on all of this soon, but we thought it was best to share what we have now rather than wait.
Regards,
Chris
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