Dear All,
I promised I'd keep everyone on this list information about progress
with our accounts. Our accountants have now given us a date of 17th
December for completion of the draft accounts, subject to us providing
them with adequate explanations and information. The board is
committed to meeting its side of the agreement, which means we will be
in a position to file the signed accounts by the end of the month.
At the same time, we are putting in place changes to our processes to
ensure that these problems do not cause us to be late with the
accounts next year or beyond.
Thank you for your continued understanding with this and our apologies
once more for any concern caused.
Regards,
Andrew Turvey
Chair, Wikimedia UK
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Andrew Turvey
<andrewrturvey(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
Dear All,
Just to follow up from Mike's previous email. I spoke to our
accountants, UHY Hacker Young, earlier today and they are working on
our accounts at the moment. The client manager was out of the office
today but he will give me a ring tomorrow with an ETA for the draft
accounts.
The proposal for strike off looks alarming, but Companies House has
given us until 9th February before any further action is taken. Our
accountants have assured us that they will be able to turn things
around quickly enough to avoid this outcome.
Unfortunately, Companies House in England has an automatic policy of
filing for winding up when the first set of accounts are late and they
are not willing to suspend their proceedings until the accounts are
filed.
We can reassure you that there is no significant risk to donors' money
from this procedure, given that our accounts are close to completion.
However, we fully understand that this looks alarming and creates a
bad impression. I apologise for any concern this has caused to any of
our donors, members or supporters.
I'll make sure I keep this list informed so you can monitor our
progress with this matter.
Regards,
Andrew Turvey
Chair, Wikimedia UK
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Michael Peel <email(a)mikepeel.net> wrote:
I'll leave it to Tango and Andrew to provide
the full story, but in a nutshell: due to the complexities of our accounts (and hence the
time demands they place on our Treasurer), we're rather late in having the first set
of them checked over by an accountant. They're currently with the accountants, though,
and we'll be able to file them soon. Being listed as 'proposal to strike off'
is an automatic thing as we haven't previously filed accounts, but there's a long
time (6 months) before there's a risk of that actually happening, and this will
definitely be sorted out in short order.
This is essentially a symptom of us having too much to do and not enough time to do it,
I'm afraid...
Mike
On 29 Nov 2010, at 21:04, geni wrote:
I saw this post at the village pump suggesting
wikimediauk's accounts
are seriously late and this presents issues:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VP/M#Wiki_UK_Ltd_to_be_struck_off.3F
The company in question is wikimedia UK (the Company No. 06741827 is
consistent with that given in past emails)
According to companies house the accounts were due 05/08/2010 and the
company's status was listed as Active - Proposal to Strike off.
Whats going on?
--
geni
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