[OSGeo-UK] Update on OSGeo:UK's charity submission

[Mike Saunt]

A shame but thanks to all the committee for your efforts anyway.

On Tue, 7 Aug 2018 at 11:06, Jo Cook <jocook at astuntechnology.com> wrote:

> Hi List,
>
> You may recall that earlier this year OSGeo:UK applied to become a
> charity- unfortunately we were not successful in our application. The short
> version of the feedback that we received is that our aims and objectives
> are not exclusively charitable and do not fall under their definition of
> "charitable purposes".
>
> We've discussed this as a committee, but we don't feel that we can submit
> an application that does meet their criteria without distorting what we
> believe OSGeo:UK is for. As such we won't be re-submitting our application,
> and we will stay as an unincorporated association instead. Our proto
> trustees have kindly agreed to stay on as committee members, which is great
> news.
>
> To be honest, this makes little difference to how we run OSGeo:UK, and
> remaining as an unincorporated association gives us more flexibility anyhow.
>
> All the best
>
> Jo
>
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