2011 Budget

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Initial budget

  • Budget values should be in units of a thousand of pounds - e.g. £500 would be 0.5.
Available money
Category Source Details Amount (£/thousands) Notes
Fundraising 2010 Fundraiser ??? Carried over from previous year
2011 Fundraiser ??? 50% of this is earmarked for international projects
Membership Fees ???
Sponsorship For individual projects ???
Total ???
Outgoing
Category Project Details Cost (£/thousands) Notes
Programme spending International projects (WMF) ???
Annual Conference 2011 1.0
Toolserver 5.0
Micro-grants 1.0
Printing and distributing Bookshelf materials 1.0?
Seed for membership merchandise 0.2?
Events Organiser ???
Sub-total 8.2+
Administrative costs Annual Accounts 1.5
Legal advice 3.0
Office Manager ???
in person board meeting(s?) 0.5
Telephone, postage etc 0.2
Insurance 0.5
Sub-total 5.7+
Reserves Opportunity Fund For this year 8.0
Emergency Admin Fund For next year 4.0
Emergency Programme Fund For next year 1.0
Sub-total 13.0
Total ???

Potential items

Office Manager

Three possibilities that need to be costed and decided upon:

  • Continuation at current level of 8 hours per week?
  • Increasing to ~20 hours per week?
  • Full time position?

Events Organiser

  • Full time position?

Printing and distributing Bookshelf materials

Materials from the WMF's Bookshelf Project are starting to become available - see http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf . They would likely need some minor alterations so that they are in British English, after which we could print and distribute copies. Other works could also be created and distributed via the same method.

Could distribute to:

  • Libraries
  • Schools
  • Universities
  • Museums
  • At events like GLAM-WIKI, annual conference, etc.

Costs would be:

  • Printing
  • Postage

Rough estimate might be £1k(?).

Seed for membership merchandise

  • Seed money for printing T-shirts etc.
  • Can also be used as prizes in competitions, rewards for helping out at events, etc.

Rough estimate might be £200(?), with the aim of becoming largely self-sustaining.