2008/8/28 geni geniice@gmail.com:
2008/8/28 Tom Holden thomas.holden@gmail.com:
Nonetheless UK charitable status would help keep our costs down for the bid. Perhaps we should just register the bid as a charity, unless people want to try and rush through the creation of a new WMUK... Thomas? Joseph?
I doubt there would be much difference in level of effort required to create a charity for the bid compared to creating a new chapter. Next london meetup already has 11 people signed up. may be able to push that higher if you want to discuss forming a new chapter with people actually in meat space.
Some of the difficulties suffered with WMUK were due to in being incorporated, which is very useful what we eventually wanted it to be, but is more difficult to set up. A bid could be run through an incorporated charity, I expect, which would be much quicker. It would involve more liability to the trustees, though, along with other issues (I haven't researched non-incorporated charities much, they weren't relevant). I'll see if I can make it to the next London meetup and we can discuss options (and report back here for the benefit of those that can't make it).