<div dir="ltr">:D :D :D <div><br></div><div>Well done all - excited to see what the next year holds!</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, 18 Nov 2016 at 13:03 Lucy Crompton-Reid <<a href="mailto:lucy.crompton-reid@wikimedia.org.uk">lucy.crompton-reid@wikimedia.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">Dear all</font><div class="gmail_msg"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></font></div><div class="gmail_msg"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">As many of you will know, Wikimedia UK applies every year to the Wikimedia Foundation for an Annual Plan Grant to support our charitable activities. Proposals from the UK and other Chapters are considered by the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) who make recommendations to the Foundation's board for final approval. </font></div><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></font></div><div class="gmail_msg"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">Following our proposal submitted at the end of September, the FDC has recommended that Wikimedia UK is supported with a grant of £297,500 for 2016/17, which is 96% of our total request and an increase on the amount received for the current financial year. We are very pleased with this recommendation, and I would like to t</font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">hank all the staff, board members and volunteers who inputted into the development of our plans for next year and the funding proposal. The team and I look forward to working with many of you on the delivery of our programmes next year!</span></div><div class="gmail_msg"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></font></div><div class="gmail_msg"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">You can read the FDC's assessment here:</font></div><div class="gmail_msg"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></font></div><div class="gmail_msg"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="gmail_msg"><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/FDC_recommendations/2016-2017_round_1#Wikimedia_UK" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/FDC_recommendations/2016-2017_round_1#Wikimedia_UK</a><br class="gmail_msg"></font></div><div class="gmail_msg"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></font></div><div class="gmail_msg"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">Best wishes</font></div><div class="gmail_msg"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">Lucy</font></div><div class="gmail_msg"><font color="#000000" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></font></div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div>-- <br class="gmail_msg"><div class="m_-2267209278885216622gmail_signature gmail_msg"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><p style="background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial" class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(136,136,136)" class="gmail_msg">Lucy
Crompton-Reid</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:rgb(136,136,136)" class="gmail_msg"></span></p><p style="background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial" class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(136,136,136)" class="gmail_msg">Chief
Executive</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:rgb(136,136,136)" class="gmail_msg"></span></p><p style="background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial" class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(136,136,136)" class="gmail_msg">Wikimedia
UK</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:rgb(136,136,136)" class="gmail_msg"></span></p><p style="background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial" class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(136,136,136)" class="gmail_msg">+44
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registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity
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operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). </span><b style="line-height:14.4pt;font-size:12.8px" class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:helvetica" class="gmail_msg">Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with
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