2008/8/28 geni <geniice(a)gmail.com>om>:
2008/8/28 Tom Holden <thomas.holden(a)gmail.com>om>:
Nonetheless UK charitable status would help keep
our costs down for
the bid. Perhaps we should just register the bid as a charity, unless
people want to try and rush through the creation of a new WMUK...
Thomas? Joseph?
I doubt there would be much difference in level of effort required to
create a charity for the bid compared to creating a new chapter. Next
london meetup already has 11 people signed up. may be able to push
that higher if you want to discuss forming a new chapter with people
actually in meat space.
Some of the difficulties suffered with WMUK were due to in being
incorporated, which is very useful what we eventually wanted it to be,
but is more difficult to set up. A bid could be run through an
incorporated charity, I expect, which would be much quicker. It would
involve more liability to the trustees, though, along with other
issues (I haven't researched non-incorporated charities much, they
weren't relevant). I'll see if I can make it to the next London meetup
and we can discuss options (and report back here for the benefit of
those that can't make it).