It's REALLY EASY for a charity to end up with boxes of T-shirts under the bed.
I second that!
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2009/9/14 WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@googlemail.com:
I'm not a fan of merchandising as part of a charities function. But if
it is done it should have the saving grace of having a sufficient
markup to help finance the organisation.
It's not a matter of being a fan or not -
2009/9/14 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com:
2009/9/14 WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@googlemail.com:
I'm not a fan of merchandising as part of a charities function. But if
it is done it should have the saving grace of having a sufficient
markup to help finance the organisation.
Thanks everyone for their responses. Back to the original questions:
- what kind of thing would you, personally, be interested in buying or
getting as a gift? Tshirts, mousemats, cufflinks?
- how much would you be willing to spend?
- what logos would you like? Wikipedia? WMUK, complete family?
The main monetary benefits of charity status are being able to reclaim
Gift Aid on donations and reduced rates on expenses like room hire and
paypal fees. These are far larger than any profit on T-shirt sales
would ever be.
Andrew
On Sep 14, 9:34 am, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote:
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Re-reading my original email and the reaction to it I should clarify:
- Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com wrote:
The plan is to sell them at cost price to members only.
Cost price isn't a restriction from the Foundation - their main restriction
is that it must be either sold
2009/9/14 Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com:
Discussions so far have focussed on very limited sales, order on
demand only. No one wants to spend lots of effort doing this, or
taking any significant levels of stock. I don't think it has any
potential to be a major source of funding so
2009/9/14 Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com:
Re-reading my original email and the reaction to it I should clarify:
- Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com wrote:
The plan is to sell them at cost price to members only.
Cost price isn't a restriction from the Foundation -
2009/9/14 Jarry1250 jarry1...@googlemail.com:
I agree. The only thing is to add really is that branded T-Shirts might
be good for WMUK people to wear at (informal) events where they
represent the friendly face of Wikipedia.
Indeed. I actually need to get around to making a homemade Wikipedia
2009/9/13 Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com:
We've received approval from the Wikimedia Foundation to produce
merchandising with Wikimedia trademarks and copyrighted logos on it for sale
to our members - anything from mugs and mouse-mats to cufflinks and ties. The
plan is to sell
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