Hello everyone,

I'm happy to share with you Wikimedia UK's activity report covering March 2013. The full report is below, as I know some of you like that, but for those who prefer to read it on wiki it can be seen at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/2013/March

Thanks,

Stevie

Below is the Wikimedia UK monthly report for the period 1st-31st March 2013. If you want to keep up with the chapter's activities as they happen, please subscribe to our blog, join the UK Wikimedia mailing list, and/or follow us on Twitter. If you have any questions or comments, please drop us a line on this report's talk page.

Program activities

Community

GLAM activities


Microgrants

Information about microgrants that are currently running, and how to submit a microgrant application of your own, are at Microgrants/Applications.


UK press coverage (and coverage of UK projects & activities)


Blog posts this month


March events


March


For past events please see here.

For events in April and May 2013 and onwards, please see Events.


Administrative activities


Finances

Board activities

The Board held a meeting by telephone on Tuesday 26 March 2013. This meeting principally dealt with governance changes that were recommended by the Governance Review, including approving the charters of the Governance Committee and the Audit & Risk Committee. It also covered an update on QRpedia, a modification to the Finance Policy, and the proposed Scheme of Delegation.

Prior to the meeting, the Board passed a resolution approving the motions that it would be proposing to the membership at the Extraordinary General Meeting to be held in April 2013. It also approved new membership applications. Both of these decisions took place on the office wiki, and were confirmed at the board meeting.

The draft minutes of the meeting have been made available on-wiki, and are scheduled to be approved at the Board meeting on 11 May 2013.

Communications

Please see the above links to relevant press coverage received in March. There was a mixture of communications activity in March. We hosted an event for journalists in central London which was attended by Jimmy Wales. Jimmy's show of support was very welcome and you can see the video of his talk here. Work began on actually drafting the 2012-13 annual review after community consultation didn't lead to a great deal of participation. A couple more short briefing papers were prepared for Trustees and staff related to potential hot topics. If you're interested in getting more involved with our communications or have any questions or comments, please email Stevie Benton – stevie.benton@wikimedia.org.uk


Fundraising and Membership

Fundraising

This month, we received £155 in one-off donations, with eight individual donations. The average donation amount was £19.37 - 75% of these donors have had Gift Aid Declarations made and matched with their records. If anyone would like a full (but anonymised) csv file with more information, please get in touch with katherine.bavageatwikimedia.org.uk and let her know your requirements.

Please note that March's fundraising data for regular donations will be uploaded soon, pending a response to clarify the data from our payment provider. This page will be edited to reflect the amounts as soon as the data is provided.

Membership

Up to 31st March 2013:

This adds up to 272 members who were eligible to vote


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Stevie Benton
Communications Organiser
Wikimedia UK
+44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173
@StevieBenton

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