2013 Activity Plan
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This page sets out Wikimedia UK's plan of activities for our financial period of 1 Feb 2013 to 31 Jan 2014. It outlines the budget lines that are designed to cover Wikimedia UK's activities through this financial year, as well as a detailed description of what those budget lines incorporate; the responsible individuals, committees or staff/board delegations; and the the timetable for its implementation, any risks in achieving it and the anticipated costs. It will be updated throughout the year to reflect the current situation.
Income
Wikimedia UK has a diverse range of incoming funding streams. These comprise:
- Regular gifts from pre-existing direct debit mandates: £250,000
- Global Wikimedia fundraising donations, including:
- One-off donations: £???
- New regular donations via direct debits: £???
- Total expected from both elements: £1,400,000 (see 2012 Fundraiser).
- Gift aid: 25% of eligible donations, current estimate is that X% of donations will be eligible, so 25%*X%*£1,680,000
- Donations in kind: to be calculated
- Membership subscriptions: £2,500
- Interest income: £3,000
The total estimate of incoming funds is £???
Expenditure
International Programmes
International Wikimedia movement grant
- Amount: Circa £700,000
- Budget responsibility: Board
The Board will provide grants that further the international Wikimedia movement's goals. This will principally comprise of a grant to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) towards the activities that the WMF is planning to undertake that are charitable under UK law. In particular, this will help support the cost of the servers and operational technical resources which keep Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia Foundation-operated projects running; the growth of the Wikimedia movement and community in countries that do not yet have Wikimedia chapters; and any other activities of the Wikimedia Foundation. The grant may also include providing funds to other Wikimedia organisations as appropriate.
The Board will take into account the recommendations of the Wikimedia Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) when determining the size of this grant budget and the organisations that the funds will be granted to.
For background information based on expenditure in previous years, please see:
- 2012 Activity Plan/Grant to Wikimedia Foundation
- The letter of agreement between WMUK and WMF <WMUK or WMF office to insert link to the agreement here>
Toolserver
- Amount: £10,000
- Budget responsibility: Board
We will support the Wikimedia Toolserver, which is operated by Wikimedia Deutschland, throughout this financial period. The Toolserver is widely used by the Wikimedia community to enable automated editing, statistics and other tools to keep Wikipedia running smoothly. This support will be provided via a grant to Wikimedia Deutschland.
The Wikimedia Foundation is currently establishing the Wikimedia Labs (WL), which will incorporate the role of the current Toolserver. However, the WL currently do not have the technical capacity to host the projects that are currently operating on the Toolserver. As such, this grant helps ensure that the facilities provided by the Toolserver will continue throughout this WMUK financial year.
For background information based on expenditure in previous years, please see:
Europeana mass upload tool project
- Amount: £80,000 (estimate based on €100,000)
- Budget responsibility: Board
We are supporting the development of a Toolserver/MediaWiki extension that provides the facility to upload media files en mass to the Wikimedia projects - specifically content that is provided via content partnerships from partner organisations. The development of this extension is being led by Europeana, and is being financially supported by the budgets of Wikimedia France, Wikimedia Nederlands and Wikimedia Deutschland, and is also being supported by the Wikimedia Foundation to ensure that the resulting code is deployed on the Wikimedia projects.
This is a strategically important project on the basis that it aims to remove the bottleneck constraining the expansion of Wikimedia Commons that is due to the lack of an appropriate facility to upload and appropriately categorize significant quantities of media files (i.e. upload batches in excess of 100 files) to the project.
This project was started in 2012, and is expected to conclude in 2014 with the successful deployment of the extension to the Wikimedia projects. Ashley Van Haeften is the Board's representative on the steering committee, and as such has responsibility for providing reports and financial recommendations to the WMUK board on this topic.
Wikimedia Chapters Association
- Amount: £35,000
- Budget responsibility: Board
We will provide financial support to, and be a member of, the Wikimedia Chapters Association (WCA). This body exists to support and coordinate the collaborative work of the Wikimedia chapters, to encourage, support and quantify the professional development of the Wikimedia chapters; and to coordinate and disseminate the shared views of the Wikimedia chapters. This financial year will see the establishment of the organisation, which will include employing staff and establishing an office or registered address. We will provide a pro rata contribution to the organisation's budget that takes into account our financial situation within the Wikimedia movement.
We note that the required budget of the WCA has not yet been quantified. As such, the amount allocated here represents our best estimate of the funds that we will be expected to contribute; this amount may vary depending on the final expectations of the WCA once the organisation's budget has been established.
Staff
All recruitment is achieved through a process of open advertisement, standardised application forms (including declarations of interest and separate Equal Opportunity monitoring forms), and shortlisting and interviews conducted under strict equal opportunities guidelines under the supervision of the Chief Executive.
Budget responsibility: Board.
In 2013-14 the Chief Executive is suggesting a cost of living increase of a minimum of 2%. The following figures are gross, including Employer National Insurance and pension payments at 6% of base salary.
Chief Executive
- Salary + payroll costs
- £63,205
More details are at Chief Executive.
Office and development manager
- Salary + payroll costs
- £29,781
More details are at Office and Development Manager.
Events Organiser
- Salary + payroll costs
- £29,781
More details are at Events Organiser job description.
Communications
- Salary + payroll costs
- £33,447
More details are at Communications Organiser Job.
Developer
- Salary + payroll costs
- £35,891
Responsibility: Mike Peel with support of office
- Development budget
- £10,000
To support work on software development by the wider community.
Responsibility: Developer.
Fundraiser
- Salary + payroll costs
- £31,614
Responsibility: Chief Executive
More details at Fundraiser job description
Volunteer support organiser
- Salary + payroll costs
- £30,000
A new post to work with the community to support volunteer activities. Exact role needs to be defined to fit in with existing staffing.
Education and training organiser
- Salary + payroll costs
- £30,000
A new post to support the growing education work and our Train the Trainers programme. Exact role needs to be defined to fit in with existing staffing.
General outreach
Train the Trainers Programme
- £30,000
See 2012 Activity Plan/Train the Trainers
Budget responsibility: by Doug Taylor with Martin Poulter
A programme of creating quality trainers to support our activities.
The CE is proposing a significant increase in this budget to enable capacity building.
Virtual Learning Environment
- £10,000
a Virtual Learning Environment to support the learning and contractors able to deliver training packages to institutions.
Outreach merchandise & publications
- £6,000
See 2012 Activity Plan/Outreach merchandise & publications
Budget responsibility: office.
Covers everything from "Introduction to Wikipedia" booklets to pin badges and Wikipedia cakes. This type of material is essential for a number of programmes. We have been able to source merchandise that is of sufficient quality that we can avoid importing material. Having this sourced locally means that we do not have to carry a large stock but we can re-order just in time. The office would like to know what you think would be useful.
Wicipedia Cymraeg
- £10,000
A specific budget to support the work of Welsh Wicipedians especially those working in the Welsh Language.
Extended Reach programme
- £20,000
See 2012_Activity_Plan/Extended_Reach_programme
Budget responsibility: Board and office.
To support outreach projects aimed at increasing womens' participation in the Wikimedia movement, or involving any minority ethnic, linguistic or other community in the UK, which might not otherwise be funded.
Cultural sector (GLAM)
Technical development to support cultural outreach (GLAM metrics)
- £20,000
Budget responsibility: the Board.
See International section above.
GLAM Conference
- £25,000
See 2012_Activity_Plan/GLAM-Wiki Conference Autumn 2012
Budget responsibility: Fae.
GLAM outreach
GLAM Events
- £10,000
Extending the GLAM work through more local and national events. To include 2 GLAMcamp-style events.
See 2012_Activity_Plan/Outreach Events
Budget responsibility: Fae.
Wikipedians in Residence
- £90,000
See 2012_Activity_Plan/Wikipedians_in_Residence
Budget responsibility: Fae.
We will part-fund Wikipedian in Residence positions. The number of positions will depend on negotiations with partner institutions about how a Wikipedian in Residence fits with their organisation and how much funding they will make available.
GLAM Scotland
- £21,000
Strong hopes of continuing this work despite delays to implementation in 2012.
See 2012_Activity_Plan/GLAM Scotland
Budget responsibility: Fae.
We will fund a position to work with the Scottish Museums to work with them to develop links with the Wikipedian community and its projects.
Digitization
- £20,000
See 2012_Activity_Plan/Digitization
Budget responsibility: Fae.
We will support the digitization and release under an open license of cultural content, particularly where this content will be used in Wikipedia and on Wikimedia Commons. We will aim to have 4,000 culturally significant media files uploaded to Wikimedia Commons in 2012.
World Wars I and II project
- £10,000
See 2012_Activity_Plan/World Wars I and II project
Budget responsibility: Chris Keating.
Building on the achievements of 2012.
Education
University outreach events
- £20,000
See 2012_Activity_Plan/University outreach events
Budget responsibility: Martin Poulter.
Includes Freshers Fair stalls, Campus Ambassador training events, and other activity with staff & students, including associated volunteer expenses. 2012's programme was slow to take off but this remains a key area for the recruitment of editors and volunteers.
Schools conference
- £12,000
See 2012_Activity_Plan/University conference We will again run a two-day EDU-WIKI conference raising awareness of the secondary education educational possibilities of Wikipedia and developing Wikimedia UK's academic engagement.
Grants programme
Project grants
- £25,000
See 2012 Activity Plan/Project grants
Budget responsibility: Mike Peel with office support.
We will further expand our existing Microgrants and Macrogrants programme and support members of the community to propose initiatives they want to take forward. These programs will offer a range of grants for innovative new projects that aren't included in other budget lines. Microgrants are small grants for between £5 and £250, and have been used by volunteers in the past to purchase research books to use as references in Wikipedia articles, for travel to events such as the Titanic anniversary. Macrogrants are for grants over £250, typically up to £2,000, and have included activities such as Geovation (proposing to dramatically increase the coverage of Welsh costal paths in many language Wikipedias).
Travel grants
- £30,000
See 2012_Activity_Plan/Travel grants and 2012 Travel Grants budget
Budget responsibility: Mike Peel with office support.
We will continue to provide financial support for individuals, from the UK and the rest of the world, to participate in Wikimedia events like Wikimania, the Wikimedia Chapters meeting, Wikimedia Loves Monuments, Wikisym and GLAMcamp.
The breakdown of this budget is at 2012 Travel Grants budget
WikiConference UK 2013
- £5,000
See 2012 Activity Plan/WikiConference UK 2012
Budget responsibility: TBA
Combining our Annual General Meeting with a series of presentations about the Wikimedia projects and chapter activities, following up on the success of our 2012 conference.
Wikimania 2014 bid
- £40,000
Financial support for a London bid. The intention would be to provide the funding for the equivalent of one full time post and associated costs.
Administrative Costs
Read 2012 Activity Plan/Admin Costs
Board costs
- £20,000
Budget responsibility: Mike Peel and CE.
The WMUK board's increase activities have led to an increase in travel and facility costs. This increase reflects that reality.
Legal fees
- £5,000
Budget responsibility: Chief Executive.
This budget allows for any legal risks.
Project management
- £40,000
This will cover consultancy and establishing the system of project and program management. This will be started from 2012's activity plan.
Accountancy fees
- £10,000
Budget responsibility: Chief Executive.
Accountancy fees cover the costs of our annual accounts and audit, quarterly management accounts and additional consultancy work on financial systems and controls.
Annual Report
- £3,000
Budget responsibility: Jon Davies with communications organiser.
This decreased budget reflects the real costs from last year.
Office rent
- £25,920
Budget responsibility: Chief Executive.
With the recruitment of permanent staff we have established an office in Old Street, central London. These costs are based on room for up to eight staff/volunteers/visitors at any one time.
Office equipment, stationery etc.
- £6,000
Budget responsibility: Chief Executive.
The costs of running the office and providing good quality equipment based on the needs of the staff. In addition providing equipment that volunteers and visitors can use when visiting the office or attending events.
Staff Travel
- £6,000
Budget responsibility: Chief Executive. To reflect the increased number of staff and the increasing number of events.
Staff Training
- £4,000
Not included in last year's budget.
Budget responsibility: Chief Executive.
Insurance
- £1,400
Slight increase to reflect increase in size of organisation.
Budget responsibility: Chief Executive.
To ensure all our staff, trustees and volunteers are properly protected while undertaking work for Wikimedia UK.
Fundraising costs
- £50,000
Budget responsibility: Chris Keating.
The costs of the fundraiser include many things. This does not include the cost of the Fundraising Organiser (see staff costs). This year we will also be paying £2,000 data protection insurance at the insistence of the Foundation.
"Payment processing and fundraising costs (includes fundraiser post): (£82,000)"
Contingency
- £15,000
Budget responsibility: Board with Chief Executive.
This general contingency is to allow for other miscellaneous costs we have to incur.
Reserves
- Reserve Requirement - £250,000
This is a provisional amount which will depend on the final shape of the plan. The aim is to ensure continuity and that the Charity is protected should there be a financial catastrophe with the fundraiser.