I will contact the Charities Commission tomorrow to clarify this.
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:52:31 +0100> From: wikimedia@alisonwheeler.com> To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Charity and Bank account information> > On Thu, August 28, 2008 00:43, Thomas Dalton wrote:> > That seems pretty clear to me. You have no control over what the WMF> > does with the money, so it giving money to them would not count as> > charitable. You can spend the money on things for the WMF (new> > servers, for instance, which I believe the German chapter has done),> > but you can't just hand over the cash.> > If a Charity (any Charity) makes a grant to "something else" be that a> person, an organisation, whatever, in line with its Objects then the> Charity has carried out its task of using the money correctly. There is no> requirement to have particular things done with that cash post-donation> (though it would be normal for a report on how the money was used to be> made available to a funder).> > The way you seem to be suggesting things would seem to encompass the> initial receiving Charity having control over the cash it receives and> gives out until .. well, when? forever, it seems.> > The Deutschland chapter has specific issues with using money outside of> the country under German law, which do not apply here to the same extent.> > Alison> > > _______________________________________________> Wikimedia UK mailing list> wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK%3E http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l
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