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@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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