[ELECTRON] Electron club fundraising etc

[Marion Hersh]

It shuold be possible to produce a very simple constitution that covers 
the aims (which hopefully people can agree on) and how decisions are 
made (however free that is) which can be used to apply for grants for 
specific projects, but does not tie people down.  Other than that people 
should get on with whatever they are interested in. It is the case in 
most organsiations that a handful of the members do all the work - not 
sure how to change that.  People get invovled when things are happening 
that interest them, but even in this case they do not necessarily want 
to organise things, just to turn up at activitis other peole organsie.
Marion

Bob wrote:
> Problem is it is down to the same handful of members to do the work 
> (no matter how simple thing seem). We can either be ragbag and 
> associated or dissociated or we can be organised. If we were organised 
> and had some kind of vision of what we were trying to achieve folk may 
> be more willing to put effort into fund-raising - or maybe not. (I am 
> not suggesting this is what we should do) If we are ragbag fool-loose 
> and fancy free (which I think we are) - we just do what we all want 
> and get on with it.
>
> The problem I think we have is if we mix these two ideas. You either 
> go down the constitution way get grants - set up ideas about what you 
> are doing and so on. Or your an artist like a butterfly floating from 
> flower to flower - experimenting with this and that - don't fence me 
> in I'm free.
>
> I don't have a problem with any of these approaches - but if we are 
> the former lets just get on with it - we don't have to wait for the 
> next open-day to burst out into spontaneous activity. We need to get 
> away from this "email life" and into the club doing things. Peace and 
> love. Bob
>
> Document wrote:
>> It's easy to become an association - all you need is a secretary - 
>> BOB, a treasurer - Simon and a chair - Nina....? and a constitution - 
>> 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 Broadband. 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?
>>
>>
>> Paula Larkin
>> Development Worker
>> Document - International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival
>>
>> tel: 00 44 141 357 4212
>> m: 07765396226
>> www.docfilmfest.org.uk
>>
>> Document 7
>> Glasgow, October 2009
>>
>>
>>
>> On 15 Jun 2009, at 11:19, makerfair wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Nina Baker
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --- On Mon, 15/6/09, Andrew Back <andy at smokebelch.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> From: Andrew Back <andy at smokebelch.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [ELECTRON] Electron club fundraising etc
>>> To: "Discussion list for the Electron Club" <members at electronclub.org>
>>> Date: Monday, 15 June, 2009, 10:59 AM
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Andrew Back
>>> a at smokebelch.org
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