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<noinclude>== The role of the Wikimedia UK board ==</noinclude>
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Wikimedia UK's 10-person volunteer board provides strategic guidance, direction and oversight for the charity as a whole while recognising and respecting the domain of staff and volunteer responsibility. In particular, it:
== The role of the Wikimedia UK board ==
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Wikimedia UK's volunteer board provides strategic guidance, direction and oversight for the charity as a whole while recognising and respecting the domain of staff and volunteer responsibility. In particular, it:
* sets and maintains our direction, vision, mission and values, and helps develop [[Strategic goals|strategy]] for effective charitable impact
* sets and maintains our direction, vision, mission and values, and helps develop [[Strategic goals|strategy]] for effective charitable impact
* sets and maintains the policies, practices, budgets and other processes necessary to deliver those aims
* sets and maintains the policies, practices, budgets and other processes necessary to deliver those aims
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* maintains fiscal oversight and accountability, including risk management and ensuring that the charity operates in a prudent and solvent manner
* maintains fiscal oversight and accountability, including risk management and ensuring that the charity operates in a prudent and solvent manner
* ensures that the law and our [[Articles|Articles of Association]] are complied with  
* ensures that the law and our [[Articles|Articles of Association]] are complied with  
* maintains its own effectiveness while promoting and championing the charity.
* promotes and champions the charity
* maintains its own effectiveness as a board


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Latest revision as of 11:54, 31 May 2023


The role of the Wikimedia UK board

Wikimedia UK's volunteer board provides strategic guidance, direction and oversight for the charity as a whole while recognising and respecting the domain of staff and volunteer responsibility. In particular, it:

  • sets and maintains our direction, vision, mission and values, and helps develop strategy for effective charitable impact
  • sets and maintains the policies, practices, budgets and other processes necessary to deliver those aims
  • selects and supports the CEO who has oversight of operations, staff and employment procedures
  • maintains fiscal oversight and accountability, including risk management and ensuring that the charity operates in a prudent and solvent manner
  • ensures that the law and our Articles of Association are complied with
  • promotes and champions the charity
  • maintains its own effectiveness as a board