Creeping towards incorporation
March 20, 2008 by Lloyd Davis
Sorry I’ve gone a bit quiet on this one, but I wanted to let those people who dug deep for our incorporation fund know what’s happened with the cash and where we are with it all.
Firstly it’s becoming more and more important that we have a separate legal entity to deal with the simple stuff of collecting money and distributing it - we have more companies seeing the value in what we’re doing and asking about sponsorship opportunities and other ways that they can help - I’d also like to establish us as a club with members, rather than a vague bunch of people who come and have coffee with me every Friday.
On to the numbers - we collected £95.98 in cash on 7th March. Since then, another £125 has come in through paypal donations. So with over £200 we should be easily able to cover the costs of incorporating and I will deal with that once the Bank Holiday hoo-hah is over.
Tomorrow we’re looking like about 20 people which is great for a holiday weekend.
If you still haven’t been yet, it would be lovely to see you soon.
Can’t come tomorrow, but love what you are doing Lloyd. Sounds like this is where Clay Shirky’s organising without oranisations hits the reality of food, rent and funders. Started the book:-)?
This sort of organising sounds very interesting. Critical Practice are organising a ResourceCamp next Sunday, 30th March, where they’re interested in hearing stories from people operating in new ‘open organisations’ and their experiences dealing with the raw finite resources of cash, space and the like. It’d be great if you, or a member of the club would be willing to come along and talk a little about how you’re approaching this?
You can find out more at: http://tinyurl.com/2xdguz
David, You’re the second person to make that Shirky connection today…mmmm… perhaps I should finish reading his book first.
Looks fascinating Ian, I may not make the whole thing but will try to pop in.