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This is a counter-proposal to Jon's draft five year plan. Please feel free to edit it and discuss it on the talk page. --Tango (talk) 17:04, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
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Wikimedia UK's vision, mission, values and priorities are:
Vision
Free knowledge for all
Mission
Wikimedia UK’s mission is to help people and organisations build and preserve open knowledge to share and use freely.
Values
- To value the contribution of volunteers
- To encourage, involve and engage volunteers
- To recognise that the contribution of volunteers is central to the activity of the organisation
- To be transparent and open
- To promote the value of free and open licences
- To have respectful and professional working relationships internally and externally
- To promote an open approach to learning and knowledge
Priorities
Our top priorities over the next five years are:
- Financial stability and sustainability
- A large and engaged membership
- Strong and transparent governance
- Large scale member-led activities in GLAM and education
1. Financial stability and sustainability
Wikimedia UK is a young and rapidly growing charity. At the moment, we are reliant almost entirely on the WMF annual fundraiser for our operating funds. We do not consider this to be a sustainable situation, since it involves a significant concentration of risk. We therefore need to diversify our revenue.
Currently, our financial planning involves an annual budget, which includes a small reserve for contingencies during and after that year. We fundraise to meet that budget with very little thought more than one year ahead. To ensure financial stability, we need a longer term outlook with our finances. The introduction of recurring donations, via direct debits, at the last fundraiser was a good first step in that direction, but we need to go further.
Targets
[TODO: Fill in the X's below]
By 31 January 2014:
- Have no more than 85% of our revenue coming from the WMF annual fundraiser (recurring donations set up during WMF annual fundraisers), or any other single source (currently X%)
- Have at least 50% of our WMF annual fundraiser revenue be from recurring donations (currently X%)
- Have a reserve sufficient to cover 6 months of full spending beyond the next financial year (current X months)
By 31 January 2016:
- Have no more than 70% of our revenue coming from the WMF annual fundraiser, or any other single source
- Have at least 70% of our WMF annual fundraiser revenue be from recurring donations, including at least 30% from recurring donations set up in previous fundraisers
- Have a reserve sufficient to cover one year of full spending beyond the next financial year
By 31 January 2018:
- Have started an endowment fund with invest returns equal to at least 5% of our annual budget.