<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>I am inclined to agree that the work involved in becoming a proper charity is probably not justified as things stand. There are other charities and organisations around that can be lead partners on grant applications for instance if we ever get to that situation.</DIV>
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<DIV>However, some grants would be available to us with a lower level of admin: if we had a constitution and a bank account. For instance that would be enough to allow us to get city council funding, if we were so minded.<BR><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><EM></EM></STRONG> </DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Mon, 15/6/09, Andrew Back <I><andy@smokebelch.org></I></B> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>From: Andrew Back <andy@smokebelch.org><BR>Subject: Re: [ELECTRON] Electron club fundraising etc<BR>To: "Discussion list for the Electron Club" <members@electronclub.org><BR>Date: Monday, 15 June, 2009, 10:59 AM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>On (10:52 15/06/09), Mark Bryars wrote:<BR>> <BR>> Would it be worth the electron club registering as a charity so we could<BR>> claim tax back from donations etc etc, or is that all to much like hard<BR>> work?<BR><BR>As I understand it, a *ton* of hard work. Hannah (of the Green Mappers)<BR>could, I'm sure, offer more of an insight...<BR><BR>Much as it would be very handy, putting aside all the work required it would<BR>mean the EC became a thing with a bank account, secretary, constitution (or<BR>similar), board, mandated meetings with a quorum required etc etc. IIRC<BR>that is - I could be wrong. Anyhow, all the sort of suff that has been<BR>avoided so far.<BR><BR>Cheers,<BR><BR>Andrew<BR><BR>-- <BR>Andrew Back<BR><A href="http://uk.mc866.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=a@smokebelch.org" ymailto="mailto:a@smokebelch.org">a@smokebelch.org</A><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>members mailing
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