Board/Role

The role of the Wikimedia UK board

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:

• 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
• maintains its own effectiveness while promoting and championing the charity.