Re: [Fsfe-uk] An idea

[Space Bunny]

Alex Hudson wrote:

> So, it is potentially more trouble than it's worth, although I think the
> German setup is substantially different than what you can achieve in the
> UK.
>  
England and Wales rather than UK as Charity law and regulation is very 
different in Scotland. There is no Charities Commission it is all 
administered by inland revenue. There is less over sight of charities, 
which means it it a lost less hassle. But this may change in future as 
their have been scandal with charities the sort that do pub collections 
often saying for medical causes having 80%  admin costs. But for now it 
makes much more sense to set up a charity in Scotland it is still a 
hassle to set one up, but once set up their there is little active 
auditing of activity which bogs down campaigning aspects of ones in 
England and Wales. One result in Scotland that to get some of advantages 
of being a charity one has to go through another process of assessment 
almost as much as getting status rather than status acting as 100% 
passport to benefit. Getting 80% reduction in rates from local council 
but again it was one off and once got ongoing.

btw I think the TheOpenCD/SoftwareFreedomDay bods were thinking of 
setting up an organisational vehicle of some form to handle funds with 
them, and looking into what that form should be. But their key bods are 
based in Oxford.

http://theopencd.org

In US it is so complex  to set up  and run what they call a 508 
Non-Profit that mainly orgs have a big group that is one sponsoring them 
to get tax advantage.