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It's easy to become an association - all you need is a secretary - <b>BOB</b>, a treasurer - <b>Simon </b>and a chair - <b>Nina....? </b>and a<b> constitution - </b>paragraph of the basics which is already there. It could be a kind of dormant association like a sleeping giant that only had to be woken for some urgent need ie<b> Broadband.</b> I like the fact that the Electron Club is a group of disassociated individuals/groups working mainly on their own projects but on occasion the status of a properly constituted association could be useful?<div><br></div><div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>Paula Larkin</div><div>Development Worker</div><div>Document - International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>tel: 00 44 141 357 4212</div><div>m: 07765396226</div><div>www.docfilmfest.org.uk</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>Document 7</div><div>Glasgow, October 2009</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br><div><div>On 15 Jun 2009, at 11:19, makerfair wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><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> <div> </div> <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> <div>Regards <br><strong>Nina Baker</strong> <br></div> <div> </div> <div>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div> <div>Being a councillor: <a href="http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/YourCouncil/Council_Committees/Councillors/w10c2694.htm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/YourCouncil/Council_Committees/Councillors/w10c2694.htm</a></div> <div>My steampunk blog: <a href="http://greensteampunk.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://greensteampunk.blogspot.com/<strong></strong></a></div> <div><strong>Maker fair blog: </strong><a href="http://mcmadsat.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><strong>http://mcmadsat.blogspot.com/</strong></a></div> <div><a href="http://www.instructables.com/tag/?q=greensteam&limit%3Atype%3Aid=on&type%3Aid=on&type%3Auser=on&type%3Acomment=on&type%3Agroup=on&type%3AforumTopic=on&sort=none" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"></a> </div> <div><strong><em></em></strong> </div><br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 15/6/09, Andrew Back <i><<a href="mailto:andy@smokebelch.org">andy@smokebelch.org</a>></i></b> wrote:<br> <blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><br>From: Andrew Back <<a href="mailto:andy@smokebelch.org">andy@smokebelch.org</a>><br>Subject: Re: [ELECTRON] Electron club fundraising etc<br>To: "Discussion list for the Electron Club" <<a href="mailto:members@electronclub.org">members@electronclub.org</a>><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 list<br><a href="http://uk.mc866.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=members@electronclub.org" ymailto="mailto:members@electronclub.org">members@electronclub.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.electronclub.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/members" target="_blank">http://lists.electronclub.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/members</a><br><br>Instructions for changing your mailing list settings:<br><a href="http://lists.electronclub.org/emailhowto.html" target="_blank">http://lists.electronclub.org/emailhowto.html</a><br></div></blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">members mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:members@electronclub.org">members@electronclub.org</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://lists.electronclub.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/members">http://lists.electronclub.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/members</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Instructions for changing your mailing list settings:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://lists.electronclub.org/emailhowto.html">http://lists.electronclub.org/emailhowto.html</a></div> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>