Thanks for this Lane - I wasn't aware of this scheme but I'll look into the details and email the trustees ASAP.
I was planning to email this list next week to highlight a couple of things that Wikimedia UK has done/is doing, and ways in which Wikipedians can contribute, although of course it all feels woefully inadequate. All best Lucy On Sat, 12 Mar 2022 at 12:34, Lane Chance <zinkl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Would it be possible for WMUK to join the government's sponsorship > scheme as a registered UK charity and provide organizational and > practical help and probably a very modest amount of funding for > someone fleeing the war in the Ukraine to stay in London? It's likely > that funding will be available from several sources if requested, so > WMUK may not need to directly fund anything apart from some > coordination time from an employee and of course interested > volunteers. > > Talking to others that have sponsored political refugees in the past, > such as religious groups, there is an expectation that you have a > connection to the sponsored refugee, and it would seem appropriate to > seek to sponsor an academic or librarian, or even a past Wikipedia > volunteer who is unable to use the other routes as they don't have > existing close family living in the UK. > > Could the trustees have a discussion about whether this is reasonable > and allowable under the "libraries" and open knowledge scope of the > charity and the agreement with the Wikimedia Foundation? If it's not > reasonable to take direct action, the trustees may have other ideas of > how WMUK can be seen to help. > > Reference: > https://www.gov.uk/guidance/local-sponsorship-scheme-for-ukraine > > Thanks, > Lane > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk > -- Lucy Crompton-Reid (she/her) Chief Executive
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