<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-11-04 13:55 GMT+01:00 Frederik Ramm <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:frederik@osmfoundation.org" target="_blank">frederik@osmfoundation.org</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":1co" class="a3s aXjCH m1582f6ac61b84552">We're pretty sure that anonymously taking a donation of £50 or £100 or<br>
even £500 is acceptable. But what if someone wanted to give us, say,<br>
£50,000 anonymously? Or even more?<br>
<br>
Is it ok for us to take anonymous donations of any size? Or should there<br>
be an upper limit or some other conditions attached to donations?</div></blockquote></div><br><br>I think truly anonymous donations would be OK (from out point of view), as in "nobody knows who threw this suitcase full of cash through the open window". But this is unlikely to happen (and would likely open other legal questions like taxes, illegal activities etc.). For transparency reasons it should not be possible to donate large sums of money without being mentioned, for transparency reasons, as frequent large donations will make us dependent from the donor and at least the membership should be aware of it.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">A sane threshold could be 1 or 2% of our annual budget.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Cheers,<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Martin<br></div></div>