Magnificent work Thomas and all others who lent a hand in this marvellous piece of news
Steve -------------------------------------------------- From: "Thomas Dalton" <thomas.dal...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 3:46 PM To: <wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] End of the fundraiser > The fundraiser has now finished, so I thought I would let people know > how it went: Wikimedia UK raised a total of just over £85,000 (we may > have a little more from cheques and bank transfers that have yet to > arrive and/or be processed, but that won't be more than a few grand > tops). I consider that a complete success and am very pleased about > how our first ever fundraiser went. There were plenty of problems, as > one would expect, but they didn't get in the way of raising lots of > money. Most donations are being split with the Foundation, so we can > expect about £43,000 of unrestricted funds for Wikimedia UK to spend. > What happens with the WMF's share has yet to be determined. I intend > to write a full report on the fundraiser over the next few days (I aim > to have to finished in time to submit it to the board meeting on > Tuesday), that report will be made available on the chapter wiki. Just > to remind people - there is a page on the wiki for discussion of our > budget for this year, please do contribute there with thoughts about > how we should spend this money: > http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/2010_Budget > > My thanks to everyone that donated and to everyone that helped me run > the fundraiser! > > Thomas Dalton > Head of Fundraising, Wikimedia UK > > _______________________________________________ > 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
