On Wed, August 27, 2008 23:48, Thomas Dalton wrote:
The HMRC thing should be sufficient for starters. Some large donors may like full registration before they donate, but I think most just want to know it's tax deductible.
I'm sorry if this could sound like a personal attack (it isn't) but you don't seem to get it. Corporate donors are far less interested in any tax deductibility than they are in being associated with a Charitable institution doing good deeds.
The board of a charity are trusted with donated funds, the board of a plain limited company are just trusted with the company's funds - that's a big difference.
And similarly here. We aren't talking about "company funds"! The raison d'être for there being a UK Chapter is that it will receive donated funds and will, of course, be being trusted with those donations for the benefit of the Objects.
Alison