On 29 April 2012 13:30, Chris Keating <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Not quite carte blanche. Surely "such charitable purposes" does limit them >> to spending the money on things that would be deemed charitable in UK law. >> >> > Well, quite! > > The main purpose of Trustees is to make sure the organisation only spends > money in pursuit of its charitable objectives. Which means there are many > many things we can't do. > > Chris > > On this issue I would argue along the same lines as I did on accepting in-kind donations: We have trustees for a reason - to exercise their human wisdom on things that are not absolutely black and white! If they aren't given the freedom to pursue the objectives of WMUK their way, we may as well have robots on the board. Deryck > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > >
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