On Mar 3, 10:26 pm, James Forrester <ja...(a)jdforrester.org> wrote:
2009/3/3 AndrewRT <ratur...(a)yahoo.co.uk>uk>:
The Board has an action to register with the
Charity Commission as
soon as it's likely that our income will be more than £5,000 - which
will be as soon were announced as the winning bid for Wikimania 2010 (-
grin-), or, failing that, when our donations get to that level in I
guess 1-2 years' time?
Hmm. Frankly, I expect us to clear the £5000 threshold in a matter of
months - there have been lots of expressions of interest over the
years. We on the old Board considered full Charity status to be an
absolute priority, and our failure to achieve it was what led the
Board to close WMUK v.1 down in favour of re-starting.
Yours,
--
James D. Forrester
Unfortunately, the Charities Commission are currently not considering
applications for charitable status from organisations with a turnover
of less than £5,000 per year unless there are exceptional
circumstances:
http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/publications/cc21.asp#32
"65. We will only consider an application for registration from an
organisation below the minimum income in exceptional circumstances."
I'm afraid I think we have no choice but to wait until we're at that
level - which as you say, hopefully won't be too long.
regards,
Andrew