At 13:40 +0000 27/11/08, Thomas Dalton wrote: > > Yeah but ... well, I'm not going to patronise you here... but it would >> be a bit boring if the only thing you could do with the money was to >> transfer it to the Foundation, wouldn't it? ;-) >> >> It might also not look so good when you apply for tax exemption / >> deductibility (I don't know whether British authorities really >> scrutinize each applicant...but in Switzerland, something like this, > > viz. only spending money by forwarding, would be a major obstacle for >> the application to succeed). > >Boring and illegal. We can't just donate money to the foundation. The >trustees have been trusted with the money and they have to be the ones >to decide what it gets spent on. We could probably give restricted >donations for specific purposes, but not general donations.
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