Initial advice from my barrister friend was that HMRC "don't have a leg to stand on". I'm also getting a message sent round the Oxford law department to see if we can get any additional help.
T > -----Original Message----- > From: wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediauk-l- > boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Sean Whitton > Sent: 25 April 2009 11:36 > To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Charity application rejected > > On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 00:15, Michael Peel <em...@mikepeel.net> wrote: > > Third, we're not all about Wikipedia. We're about the Wikimedia > > Movement, or even more generally, the free culture movement. That > > incorporates a much wider range of projects, including Wikiversity > > whose aim is explicitly to educate people, and a load of other > > projects that do this to a lesser extent. > > IANAL, but this seems to be the key thing that we're stumbling on. If > we press this aspect of the chapter's purpose, that it supports > Wikimedia which is very obviously an educational charity, and that we > support all our projects esp. Wikiversity and Wikibooks, then maybe > their misapplication will dissapear. Focussing on Wikipedia whenever > Wikimedia comes up is something people tend to do. > > S > > -- > Sean Whitton / <s...@silentflame.com> > OpenPGP KeyID: 0x25F4EAB7 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
