2009/3/18 AndrewRT raturvey@yahoo.co.uk:
On Mar 18, 12:54 pm, "joseph seddon " life_is_bitter_sw...@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
I think that making preparations for both drafting a complaint to HMRC and preparing an application to CC should start now. Even if the preparations are only minor. Delaying either by any real length of time could affect Wikimania significantly.
I agree entirely. Complaint letter has already been drafted and will hopefully go out tomorrow. I think the CC application should be ready to be put in the post the day after we win Wikimania? Even better, anyone know a benefactor willing to give us £4,700? Or a few to give us £1,000 each? They can even earmark it to whatever they want, just so we get the income to qualify!
You may have to wait a little after we win the bid in order to get confirmed sponsorships - CC will almost certainly want written confirmation (unconditionally, that is - what we have at the moment is all conditional on us winning the bid). If the current board has time to do it, starting work on the CC application now wouldn't hurt.