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| [[File:Greyham_Dawes.jpg|thumb|200px|right| Greyham Dawes in the Wikimedia UK offices]] | | [[File:Wapen_Amsterdam.svg|thumb|150px|right| Amsterdam's coat of arms]] |
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| Wikimedia UK is pleased to announce the co-option of Greyham Dawes to our [[Board|Board of Trustees]]. He has also been appointed Treasurer.
| | ''This post was written by Richard Nevell'' |
| | Applications for grants to support travel to the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Hackathon_2013 Amsterdam Hackathon 2013] are now being accepted. The deadline for applications is 8th March 2013. |
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| Greyham is a professional financial adviser specialising in regulatory compliance, charity governance and restructuring and public accountability, drawing on extensive knowledge and experience gained as head of accountancy policy at the Charity Commission in the nineties. He provides pro bono advice in these areas to the charity sector generally, serves on a number of standing committees for best practice in charity financial reporting and is well known for his books, essays and lectures on that topic.
| | The hackathon is being held on 24–26 May and is described by the organisers as “an opportunity for all Wikimedia community developers and sysadmins to come together, squash bugs and write crazy new features”. |
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| He is a chartered accountant, an independent member of the audit committee at SCOPE, chair of the finance & audit committee as a non-executive director of the [http://www.bso.ac.uk/ British School of Osteopathy] and hon. treasurer of the [http://acat.uk.com/ Association of Church Accountants and Treasurers].
| | A grant from Wikimedia UK will allow an individual to attend the hackathon. Applicants must be: |
| | *based in the UK |
| | *able to travel to Amsterdam |
| | *willing to feature in blog posts about the conference and the scholarships. |
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| Greyham said: “I’m delighted to be able to help take such a rapidly developing charity to the next level in all aspects of best practice as it continues to serve the Public Benefit needs of its beneficiaries within the Wikipedia and wider open-access communities.”
| | [[Amsterdam_Hackathon_travel_grants|To learn more about the scholarships please visit this page]] If you have any questions please email richard.nevell@wikimedia.org.uk <span class="plainlinks">[http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/02/travel-grants-available-for-amsterdam-hackathon-2013/ <nowiki>[</nowiki>...<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</span> |
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| Chris Keating, Chair of Wikimedia UK, said: “I am very pleased to welcome Greyham to the Board, and I am sure his experience will be immensely valuable to us.”
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| Greyham’s term on the board will run until WMUK’s [[2013_AGM|Annual General Meeting on 8 June 2013]]. <span class="plainlinks">[http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/02/tyne-wear-archives-museums-and-wikimedia-uk-to-jointly-appoint-wikimedian-in-residence/ <nowiki>[</nowiki>...<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</span>
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