2012 Activity Plan

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Comment This is in draft - please contribute below. It must be completed, adopted by the board and submitted to the Wikimedia Foundation by 23:59 on Friday 30 September

[Introduction - contractual context; compsrison to prior year's method; explain the context, outline the extent to which it is a firm commitment or can be changed]

Income

Fundraising income target
£1,000,000
Interest income
£20,000
Membership subscriptions
£3,000
Fundraising costs
(£40,000)

[Ck to expand - prior year income; increases due to global increase, targeted banners, gift aid, direct debit solicitation]

Global South

Donation to Wikimedia Foundation
£600,000

[contributes to global infrastructure - eg servers]

[Global South argument, UK raises more money but needs are less cf India, for example]

Chief Executive

Salary, payroll costs
£57,000

[just recruitment chief exec, Jon Davies; role is vital in ensuring that the chapter meets its strategic priorities of professionalising for donors, members, volunteers, public face etc plus acheives full vision; set out number of universities, musuems etc per growth paper]

Office Manager

Salary, payroll costs
£33,000
Office costs
£20,000

[currently have temporary role but, subject to ce, plannign to make permanent. Fundamental role in the professionalisation of the chapter; need to open office near London as a base for teh community, face of the chapter]

Events Manager

Salary/Fee
£35,000
Event costs
£35,000

[could be contract or employed; intention is to run three GLAM-WIKI style events in 2012; these are vital for setting the seeds of future collaborations and building a culture where we engage with our key partner organisations]

[note structure tbd in consultation with new CE]

Communications

Salary/Fee
£33,000

[huge media interest in what we do; also vital need to improve quality of communications with donors, volunteers, partner organisations and other supporters]

[note structure tbd in consultation with new CE]

Developer

Salary/Fee
£33,000

[various needs including hosting www.wikimedia.org.uk; mailing lists, wiki etc. and also to contribute to improvements in the global wikimedia technology]

GLAM Projects

Total costs
£280,000

[insert schedule from Fae; distinguish between high likelihood sepecific budget and low likelihood general budget]

Administrative Costs

Board costs
£10,000
Legal fees
£15,000
Accountancy fees
£10,000

[note these are all inclusive of VAT]

[board does most of work by email and phone however face to face meetings are vitally important to making sure that the right strategic decisions are made; the board works together well etc. costs comprise travel, meals and accommodation]

[legal fees - budgetted as per last year to cover follow up from charity application, plus risk of getting sued for WP, fundraiser agreement etc etc]

[accountancy fees cover annual accounts and audit, quarterly management accounts and additional consultancy work on financial systems and controls]

[finally, yes I know it doesn't add up!]