2011 Budget
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This is a working draft; it is due to be finalized by the end of January 2011. |
Initial budget
- Budget values should be in units of a thousand of pounds - e.g. £500 would be 0.5.
| Available money | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Source | Amount (£/thousands) | Notes | |
| 2010 Fundraiser | ~30 | Carried over from previous year | |
| 2011 Fundraiser | 500 | 50% of this is earmarked for international projects | |
| Membership Fees (£5 x ~100) | 0.5 | ||
| Reserves - Admin + Programme | 5.0 | ||
| Grants & sponsorship - for individual projects | TBC | ||
| Total | 530+ | ||
| Outgoing | |||
| Programme spending | |||
| Project | Cost (£/thousands) | Notes | |
| International projects (WMF) | 250 | ||
| Events Organiser | 30.0+? | ||
| Relationship Manager | 30.0+? | ||
| Developer | 30.0+? | ||
| Culture and Heritage Projects | 10.0? | ||
| Small Language Projects | 10.0? | ||
| Toolserver | 10.0 | ||
| GLAM-WIKI follow-up conference | 10.0? | ||
| Wikimania 2011 Sponsorship | 10.0? | ||
| Annual Conference 2011 | 3.0 | See detailed budget. Includes annual accounts audit. | |
| Chapters Conference 2011 (general support + attendance) | 5.0? | ||
| Micro-grants | 1.0 | ||
| Printing and distributing Bookshelf materials | 1.0? | ||
| Seed for membership merchandise | 0.2? | ||
| Travel to conferences and partnership meetings | 1.0 | ||
| Opportunity Fund | 10.0 | For new possibilities that arise throughout the year | |
| Sub-total | 410 | ||
| Administrative costs | |||
| Project | Cost (£/thousands) | Notes | |
| Office | 23.0? | ||
| CEO | 40.0+? | ||
| Office Manager (full time) | 30.0? | ||
| Annual Accounts | 1.5 | ||
| Legal advice | 3.0 | ||
| Insurance | 0.5 | ||
| in person board meetings | 1.5 | ||
| Telephone, postage etc | 0.5 | ||
| Sub-total | 100 | ||
| Reserves | |||
| Purpose | Cost (£/thousands) | Notes | |
| Emergency Admin Fund (for next year) | 10.0 | ||
| Emergency Programme Fund (for next year) | 10.0 | ||
| Sub-total | 20.0 | ||
| Total | 530+ | ||
Potential items
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.
Chapters Conference 2011
We will need to fund the travel for 2 board members to attend this. Weekend of 25-26 March, in Berlin. Should cost ~£0.5K. Would also be good to provide sponsorship for other chapters, or general support for the conference (pending them meeting the requirements of our grant for the 2010 conference...). Perhaps budget £2k in total?
Wikimania 2011 Sponsorship
Scholarships for people to travel to Wikimania 2011 in Haifa, Israel? £1k - or more needed to have a bigger impact? Should liaise with Jessie Wild (WMF's 2011 Wikimania Scholarships Program Manager); their scheme will launch in January 2011 so should probably launch ours at a similar time.
Travel
Funding for board members and volunteers to travel to free content conferences and meetings with current and potential partners. Could also include accommodation and subsistance. £1k might be an underestimate (10 trips of £100 each), but might be a good starting point. This could do with knowing the amount spent in 2010 on this.
Potential Projects
Wikipedia & Schools (Kenya)
This I believe should be used as a test bed project for supporting the offline use of wikipedia in subsaharan africa. A high priority case.
More Information: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Kenya/Project_for_Kenyan_Schools
Bristol Somali Project
Again, a high priority testbed project to improve sub-saharan resources from the UK. Potential to be rolled out across many languages.
WIKI conference
Follow-up conference to GLAM-WIKI, either on the same topic (GLAM) or on a different one (e.g. education). Budget for GLAM-WIKI 2010 is ~£5k, hence budgeting roughly the same next year.
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(?).
Other materials that could be printed and distributed:
Backstage Pass events
At least one should be run in the year. For infomation on the BM backstage pass event see: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Backstage_Pass
Wikipedia 10th Anniversary
Support for these celebrations needs to be coordinated with the community.
Staff
Office Manager
Three possibilities that need to be costed and decided upon:
- Continuation at current level of 8 hours per week? 8x52x£10 = £4,160
- Increasing to ~20 hours per week? 20x52x£10 = £10,400.
- Full time position? ~£20k salary, ~£10k+ overheads.
Events Organiser
- Full time position? ~£20k salary, ~£10k+ overheads, plus individual project budgets?
- Given that we are planning to support numerous projects at this point in time I would rather see this role be more general and for it to support all current projects. As the chapter grows this role can be bifurcated. Seddon 01:34, 28 October 2010 (UTC) 01:31, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
Office
Two desks at CAN Mezzanine for 9 months (assuming we won't be moving in for 3 months after the end of the fundraiser at the earliest) at £348 per month per desk, plus a few additional fees and costs: ~£7,000. Security deposit of about £2000. One-off moving in fee of about £1000. Furniture and computers, etc., about £1000. Total: £11,000.
Rescaling to 5 people: ~£17,500 deskspace, deposit ~2k, moving in fee ~1k, computers ~2.5K. Total: £23k