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After speaking to a family friend who has been a board-member of several
large and well-known British charities, she recommended that we should
talk both to the Charities Commission and to the National Council for
Voluntary Organisations. Anyone feel like joining me to try going there
for advice at some point? A group of three would probably work out best.
Anyway, more on this at the wikimeet, perhaps?
Further, she said some good things: firstly, that we wouldn't need to
set up separate charities for S and NI over the E&W one (not sure about
RoI); and, secondly, that there are definitely legal and Charities
Commission-approved ways of granting monies to overseas charities as
we'd want to do with the WMF. She also said that it is normal to have
dissolution proceedure with a named charity for all residual assets to
go to, even an overseas one (whereas article 19 of the proposed by-laws
says merely that the liquidators will get to decide).
Yours sincerely,
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James D. Forrester
Wikimedia : [[W:en:User:Jdforrester|James F.]]
E-Mail : james(a)jdforrester.org
IM (MSN) : jamesdforrester(a)hotmail.com
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