The charity status will be resolved in time, I am sure. I have been involved in a number of educational charities, and it is just a matter of patience.
On funding, there is plenty to do, let us not be desperate to dispose of funds that we may well need later on. For example I am trying to get more involved in the (possibly doomed) attempt to save Stamford Museum, and one thing that has come to my mind is that mirroring the museum on line would be a worthwhile effort. This could be done either by throwing money at it, or by selectively working with a mixture of volunteer and paid effort, and building a procedure that would allow the process to be replicated elsewhere. I prefer the latter. One a project like this blossoms, though, the costs multiply. The same would apply to, for example, schools out-reach. If we pilot a programme in year one, say one or two volunteers visiting a dozen schools each, with expenses of maybe £100 per visit, then £2,400 will hardly dent the coffers. But year two we might have twenty or thirty volunteers, and be running the program at £36,000 pa. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
