[ELECTRON] Electron club fundraising etc

[Alan J Munro]

Yes, you are right. I think we thought about this for Radius (the  
Green Map's funder company) some time ago and Hannah found out it was  
a complicated procedure - charities are very strictly regulated. We  
would have to have all that stuff and more - the overhead of running  
it is really beyond what EC is as now stands, and we would have to  
become really 'corporate' to become a charity - somewhat antithetical  
to our 'rough around the edges' ways! :-)

cheers,

alan


On 15 Jun 2009, at 10:59, Andrew Back wrote:

> On (10:52 15/06/09), Mark Bryars wrote:
>>
>> Would it be worth the electron club registering as a charity so we  
>> could
>> claim tax back from donations etc etc, or is that all to much like  
>> hard
>> work?
>
> As I understand it, a *ton* of hard work. Hannah (of the Green  
> Mappers)
> could, I'm sure, offer more of an insight...
>
> Much as it would be very handy, putting aside all the work required  
> it would
> mean the EC became a thing with a bank account, secretary,  
> constitution (or
> similar), board, mandated meetings with a quorum required etc etc.  
> IIRC
> that is - I could be wrong. Anyhow, all the sort of suff that has been
> avoided so far.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew
>
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> Andrew Back
> a at smokebelch.org
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