<div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dear all</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">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><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">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">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><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">You can read the FDC's assessment here:</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/FDC_recommendations/2016-2017_round_1#Wikimedia_UK" target="_blank">https://meta.wikimedia.org/<wbr>wiki/Grants:APG/FDC_<wbr>recommendations/2016-2017_<wbr>round_1#Wikimedia_UK</a><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Best wishes</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Lucy</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><p style="background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(136,136,136)">Lucy
Crompton-Reid</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:rgb(136,136,136)"></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"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(136,136,136)">Chief
Executive</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:rgb(136,136,136)"></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"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(136,136,136)">Wikimedia
UK</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:rgb(136,136,136)"></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"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(136,136,136)">+44
(0) 207 065 0991</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:rgb(136,136,136)"></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"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:rgb(136,136,136)"> </span></p><p style="margin:4.8pt 0cm 6pt;line-height:14.4pt;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:helvetica;color:rgb(80,0,80)">Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee
registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity
No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard
Street, London EC2A 4LT.</span></p><p style="margin:4.8pt 0cm 6pt;line-height:14.4pt;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:helvetica;color:rgb(80,0,80)">Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia
movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who
operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). </span><b style="line-height:14.4pt;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:helvetica">Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with
no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.</span></b></p></div></div></div></div>
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