There are two practical implications:

1. It means that nobody receives Gift Aid on the donations taken by the WMF which originated in the UK. Our donors who wish to make use of Gift Aid are denied the opportunity and the movement as a whole loses around £200,000 - £300,000 which would be claimable from HMRC (obviously monies that are claimed back by WMUK would reduce the amount that we ask for from the FDC).

2. It insulates us from our donors. We have no means of establishing a relationship with the huge donor base in the UK, which prevents us from encouraging them into playing more of a role in the WIkimedia movement.

Taken as a whole, it is clearly part of Sue Gardner's agenda to get rid of chapters - or at least reduce them to impotence. She has never been able to accept that chapters can often do jobs better than a centralised WMF. Despite the hollow words she has uttered over the years, when it comes to practical matters, she makes decisions based on increasing her own little empire at WMF to the detriment of those working for the Wikimedia movement throughout the rest of the world.

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Rexx 




On 21 May 2014 14:10, Deskana <djgwiki@gmail.com> wrote:
For those not up on the governance, what are the practical ramifications of this for the chapter?

Thanks,
Dan


On 21 May 2014 03:09, Stevie Benton <stevie.benton@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
Wikimedia UK regrets to have to announce to the community that the Wikimedia Foundation’s outgoing Executive Director, Sue Gardner, has given us formal notice of her decision under her mandate from the WMF board not to renew our fundraising agreement, thereby excluding us from this year’s fundraiser.  

We have written an open letter to Sue about this decision. A copy of our letter to Sue can be found here on the Wikimedia UK wiki. 

Thanks and regards,

Stevie

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