Dear all

As has been raised on this mailing list quite recently, Wikimedia UK has been rather remiss at updating the membership numbers of the charity on the relevant page (due to a change in staffing). We have decided to move to doing this quarterly and numbers from the past two quarters are available here:

https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Membership/Numbers

As has been previously noted by myself and others, the reason for the jump in members in May/June 2017 is that the board and I were getting concerned about the low number of members and did a membership 'push'. As well as promoting membership through our social media channels I did two other things:

1. Contacted all previous members of the charity whose membership had lapsed, encouraging them to renew 2. Contacted all active donors to the charity, inviting them to become members

Since that 'push', numbers have remained relatively steady at just above the 500 mark; although of course this involves a degree of turnover as some memberships lapse and new members sign up.

Thanks and best wishes Lucy