Business Plan 2008

Organizational Background

Mission and Objectives

The charity's mission is to aid and encourage people to collect, develop and effectively disseminate knowledge and other educational, cultural and historic content in the public domain or under a license that allows everyone to freely use, distribute and modify said content.

It proposes to do fulfil this mission by means including (but not limited to):

1. promoting freely accessible online information repositories whose content is freely and collaboratively editable;
2. acting as a voice and representative for the community of UK residents and citizens who use and edit such repositories;
3. preserving world heritage, and particularly that of the UK, through such repositories;
4. supporting the charitable work of the Wikimedia Foundation;
5. enabling, assisting, promoting and promulgating wider participation in the creation, dissemination and expansion of information and educational resources covering the world's knowledge and languages to all persons, everywhere;
6. furthering the development of electronic, printed, and other resources required to support such participation;
7. producing, publishing and developing, or causing to be produced, published and developed, information resources, whether in printed, electronic, or other forms;
8. making use of or encouraging the use of information resources for the advancement of education; and
9. encouraging the adoption of practices and policies to widen education, participation and dissemination of information worldwide.

Current status

Wiki UK Limited is a registered, private company, limited by guarantee, with no share capital. It is company number 06741827 and its current registered address is:

Wiki UK Limited
23 Cartwright Way
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
NG9 1RL

It was incorporated on the 5/11/2008.

The membership

Wiki UK Limited currently has 5 members, all of whom are on the board of directors.

The board

• Chair - Kwan Ting Chan
• Secretary - Andrew Turvey
• Treasurer - Thomas Holden
• Communication Officer - Mickey Conn
• Membership Secretary - Mike Peel

Operational Plan

Status transitions

It is proposed that Wiki UK Limited switch from being a company limited by guarantee to being a charitable incorporated organisation within the next year. This is an alternative to registering as a charity with lower reporting requirements. It is not envisioned that this status transition should aversely affect the charity's operation in any significant way.