Activities/Kick-start grant

This is a draft of the bid for funding from the Wikimedia Foundation:

Note: Template generated from http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/WMF_grants

Legal name of chapter

Wiki UK Limited, operating as Wikimedia UK

Grant contact name

Andrew Turvey

Grant contact user-name or e-mail

secretary@wikimedia.org.uk

Grant contact title (position)

Secretary

Project lead name

Tom Holden

Project lead user-name or e-mail

treasurer@wikimedia.org.uk

Project lead title (position), if any

Treasurer

Full project name

Seed grant funding

Amount requested (in USD)

8,150 (= GBP 5,000)

Provisional target start date

1 June 2009

Provisional completion date

1 June 2010

Budget breakdown

The bid is for start up funding to kickstart the chapter's work across a number of projects. This is broken down as follows:

Project	Expense	Value (GBP)	Value (USD)
Encouraging Wikipedia use in schools	Computer	1,000	1,630
	Travel	1,000	1,630
Content access projects	Travel, refreshments	1,000	1,630
Content generation projects	Advertising	1,000	1,630
Attending the chapters conference	Travel, accommodation	500	815
Attending free content conferences	Travel	500	815
Total		5,000	8,150

Project scope

This project provides start up funding for Wikimedia UK so that we can kick-start a number of projects we would like to work on. Because the income from this grant takes us over the £5,000 level it also allows us to register with the UK Charity Commission - which helps us to book cheaper rooms and gain various tax benefits associated with charitable recognition sooner than would be otherwise possible.

The funding allows us to use the money in the following projects:

1. asdas
2. ...