This is fantastic news: congratulations everyone! On 6 Nov 2011 21:12, "Chris Keating" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thursday we finally heard back from the Charity Commission that they > have agreed to register us as a charity, number Registered Charity, > No.1144513. > > Thank you all very much indeed for your support, patience and forbearance > over the last few months (and years!) while we have been sorting this out, > and to everyone who turned up to amend our Objects a few weeks ago. > > This is obviously a hugely significant step for us as an organisation. It > is also a recognition of the quality of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia > movement as a whole - the Charity Commission in their decision took pains > to distinguish Wikipedia from a random collection of information on the > Internet, which is what they were worried we were. And we're also told > this it's a significant development in charity law. (Well, if it was really > simple, we would have done it ages ago...) > > We'd like thank to our lawyers (Stone King) and to John Byrne and Steve > Virgin who have carefully navigated our path along this journey. You can > find out more on our blog -http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2011/11/charity/ > > We already have Gift Aid forms working (why not fill one in here? > http://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/thanks-gift-aid ) and we'll be doing our > best to make sure we can get Gift Aid on as many donations as possible in > this Autumn's fundraiser, which starts next week. > > We've been holding off the announcement to try to maximise our press > coverage, but please now join the Board in cracking open a metaphorical > bottle of champagne... :-D > > Regards, > > Chris > (on behalf of the Wikimedia UK Board) > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > >
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