On Mon, 6 Dec 2021 at 14:30, Andreas Kolbe <[email protected]> wrote: > According to its certificate of incorporation, available in the filing > history, the "Jimmy Wales Foundation" is a "private company limited by > guarantee". This is quite different from the sort of charitable foundation > the Wikimedia Foundation is.
The WMF is a 501(c)(3) organization a concept that doesn't really exist under UK law (registered charity is rather narrower). If you wanted to create a rough 501(c)(3) analogue under uk law (although differences in tax law mean its going to be very rough) then your options would be a Community Interest Company (but that results in a much tighter restriction on political activities than 501(c)(3) see https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1788/part/2/made ) or a private company limited by guarantee. Since this discussion of UK company law is largely irrelivant to foundation issues I suggest there is little point in continuing things on this mailing list. -- geni _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/NQFWVCCOVXJMXJMRCAV6HNQINXO7V4LU/ To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
