Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Charity Finance news article: Wikimedia UK denied charitable tax status

2009-06-06 Thread Andrew Turvey
: > From: "Thomas Dalton" > To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Sent: Saturday, 6 June, 2009 17:00:14 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, > Portugal > Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Charity Finance news article: Wikimedia UK > denied charitable tax status > > 2009/

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Charity Finance news article: Wikimedia UK denied charitable tax status

2009-06-06 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/6/6 Michael Peel : > Also covered by ThirdSector: > > http://thirdsector.co.uk/news/Article/911135/Wikimedias-UK-charity- > application-re-examined/ "Organisation responsible for Wikipedia" - that's about as bad as it gets! I haven't read the full article (free registration required - I never

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Charity Finance news article: Wikimedia UK denied charitable tax status

2009-06-06 Thread Michael Peel
Also covered by ThirdSector: http://thirdsector.co.uk/news/Article/911135/Wikimedias-UK-charity- application-re-examined/ Thanks, Mike On 1 Jun 2009, at 13:41, Michael Peel wrote: > See http://www.charityfinance.co.uk/home/content.php? > id=2876&pg=15&cat=30 > > Mike > > __

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Charity Finance news article: Wikimedia UK denied charitable tax status

2009-06-01 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/6/1 Michael Peel : > Credit the author. :-) I merely pointed out the issues, and explained > things. Nevertheless, good work! ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: h

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Charity Finance news article: Wikimedia UK denied charitable tax status

2009-06-01 Thread Michael Peel
On 1 Jun 2009, at 17:28, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/6/1 Michael Peel : >> The author has now corrected the article. I've also added a paragraph >> to our website to try to explain this a bit better in general; tweaks >> to that text would be more than welcome. > > Much improved! Do we credit you

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Charity Finance news article: Wikimedia UK denied charitable tax status

2009-06-01 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/6/1 Michael Peel : > The author has now corrected the article. I've also added a paragraph > to our website to try to explain this a bit better in general; tweaks > to that text would be more than welcome. Much improved! Do we credit you with that? ___

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Charity Finance news article: Wikimedia UK denied charitable tax status

2009-06-01 Thread Michael Peel
The author has now corrected the article. I've also added a paragraph to our website to try to explain this a bit better in general; tweaks to that text would be more than welcome. Thanks, Mike On 1 Jun 2009, at 14:53, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/6/1 joseph seddon : >> We need to ask them to

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Charity Finance news article: Wikimedia UK denied charitable tax status

2009-06-01 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/6/1 joseph seddon : > We need to ask them to correct the point where they say "Wikimedia, which > has income of less than £5,000 a year, has decided to stop referring to > itself as a charity or an exempt charity, as it has up until now, and start > describing itself as a ‘not-for-profit’ inst

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Charity Finance news article: Wikimedia UK denied charitable tax status

2009-06-01 Thread joseph seddon
wikimedia. > Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 13:46:32 +0100 > From: thomas.dal...@gmail.com > To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Charity Finance news article: Wikimedia UK > denied charitable tax status > > 2009/6/1 Michael Peel : > > See

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Charity Finance news article: Wikimedia UK denied charitable tax status

2009-06-01 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/6/1 Michael Peel : > See http://www.charityfinance.co.uk/home/content.php? > id=2876&pg=15&cat=30 "HMRC had denied charitable tax status to Wikimedia UK, which runs the Wikipedia UK website, stating that production of an encyclopaedia is not a charitable purpose." They're not even trying...

[Wikimediauk-l] Charity Finance news article: Wikimedia UK denied charitable tax status

2009-06-01 Thread Michael Peel
See http://www.charityfinance.co.uk/home/content.php? id=2876&pg=15&cat=30 Mike ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org