2009 Winter Fundraiser

This is curently in development - please help!

This page describes the plans for the joint winter fundraiser between Wikimedia UK and the Wikimedia Foundation. The Foundation will be putting banners on its projects asking for donations - donors from the UK will be given the choice of donating to us. 50% of the funds raised through those banners will be available for general use by the chapter; the other 50% would be used in joint activities with the Wikimedia Foundation.

WMUK Lead

Tom Holden (Treasurer)

Target amount to raise

£50,000

Fundraising back-end

• Current system is to have donations via Paypal; the donations page is at Donate.
• Need to have a substantially better donations page, and form via PayPal
• Need to have a donors privacy policy
• Need to have sufficient details to follow up later to ask for Gift Aid (currently can't ask for Gift Aid declaration at the same time as the donations are received)
• Need to know where the donation is coming from (is it via the WMF projects, or seperate?)

Surrounding publicity

• Blog post
• Twitter posts
• Press release? Highlight initiatives that would be funded

Potential uses of funds

• GLAM-WIKI conference? Cost ~ £4,000?
• Funds for getting members to events to talk about Wikimedia - ~£1,000?
• ... (ideas from Initiatives/Proposals and Initiatives/Ideas?)