Agenda 20Jul10/Chair's Report

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Activities

Solicitors

  • Met with solicitors to discuss response to charity commission; provided them with various details and currently waiting for them to draft the response for us to revise as appropriate
  • Asked them to restart work on the Chapter Fundraising Agreement
  • Approved a further £800+VAT spend to cover the next stage
  • Instructed them to draft a contract of employment per their quote

Accountants

  • Obtained three quotes for preparing SORP accounts plus an independent examination
  • Instructed UHY Hacker Young
  • Currently awaiting ID from MP and TD in order to proceed

Staff

TO COMPLETE : Budget & Blog Post

Toolserver Association Working Group

  • Will meet next week for the first time

Other actions

  • TD, AT, MP: Update bank account signatories - a/w TD
  • Order new business cards for AT, MP, TD, SV, LW plus general information cards - Complete for AT, Go-next-red.svg Carried forward for others
  • AT & MP to talk offline about communications strategy Yes check.svg Done
  • AT and TD prepare a report for the WMF chapters grant, for email approval, and to approach the Foundation to extend the grant
  • chased Guillaume re the usability project (see 2010 Budget)
  • AT to judge WLA prizes
  • AT to respond to ORG re their grant application
  • Andrew to see if there is interest in Wiki Takes Liverpool amongst local Wikimedians
  • AT and TD to revisit the annual report, updating actions and setting things going to produce this.