Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/General Support Fund/Wikimedia UK General Support Fund Proposal for 2025 - 2028
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Applicant information
[edit]- Organization name or Wikimedia Username for individuals. (required)
- Wikimedia UK
- Do you have any approved General Support Fund requests? (required)
- Yes, I have already applied and received a General Support Fund
- You are applying as a(n). (required)
- Wikimedia Affiliate (chapter, thematic org., or user group)
- Are your group or organization legally registered in your country? (required)
- Yes
- Do you have a fiscal sponsor?
- No
- Fiscal organization name.
- N/A
- Please provide links to the following documents if they are available
These documentation can be provided in your local language(s), no translations required.
- Organizational website
- Detailed financial reporting and/or audits
- Documentation of the governance structure, board list, governance processes
- Documentation of the general assembly decision on your plan
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/2023-24_Annual_Report
Main proposal
[edit]- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be a title for the Meta-Wiki page. (required)
- Wikimedia UK General Support Fund Proposal for 2025 - 2028
- 2. Do you want to apply for the multi-year base funding for 3 years? (required) (only for returning applicants)
- Yes
- 2.1. Provide a brief overview of Year 2 and Year 3 of the proposed plan and how this relates to the current proposal and your strategic plan? (required)
Wikimedia UK’s new strategy covers the next five years, and many of the objectives and activities identified for 2025 - 26 within our six strategic aims are anticipated to remain in place for the second and third years of our funding proposal. However, these are some of the changes or developments we are planning:
Year 2 (2026 - 2027)
Wikimedia UK has committed to a step change in our work in secondary education (which in the UK is ages 11 - 18, but our focus will be on 16 - 18 year olds). By 2026 we hope to be in a position to significantly scale up this work, with established models of delivery piloted during 2025, and external funding in place.
External funding for our climate residency at the Global Systems Institute has been secured until the end of September 2025. Whilst we hope to continue with this initiative into 2026, our strategy is guiding us to scope, develop and deliver more projects and partnerships relating to topics for impact, including climate and environment, health and human rights.
During 2026 (and probably beyond that) we want to build on our national and international relationships within health literacy as well as our established partnerships in health information in order to better prepare ourselves and our volunteer community for a future infodemic.
Key objectives for 2025 within our work to support the wider Wikimedia ecosystem include exploring the potential for the Volunteer Supporters Network to become a hub, and supporting the development of small language communities, including working with the Language Diversity Hub. By 2026 we anticipate having clarity on the best role Wikimedia UK can play in supporting global Hub initiatives, which will also inform how we structure our international work in future years.
Year 3 (2027 - 2028)
In the first few years of our new strategy our focus will be on developing our work in schools. However, we will continue to work with several major partners within higher education, including the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and the University of Leeds in England. During 2027 - 2028 (year three of our five year strategy) we want to develop more high-level, strategic relationships with universities with a view to establishing (or supporting the continuity of) a Wikimedian in Residence within a University in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Building on our commitment to reaching young people through our programme, we want to develop a new strand of work within further education; exploring the potential for Wikimedia to support employability skills through training, alternative qualifications and apprenticeships, and looking for potential external funding.
Wikimedia UK’s profile and credibility as a trusted partner and advisor on open knowledge has grown considerably over the past decade. In 2021, we were on a small, expert advisory panel reviewing the licensing requirements for National Lottery Heritage Fund supported projects, which resulted in NLHF changings its policies to make open licensing by default a requirement of their funding. By 2030, we hope to become an established advisor to all large funding bodies in the UK, advocating for the inclusion of open knowledge requirements and thus increasing the accessibility and reach of publicly funded research and cultural heritage projects in the UK. By 2027 (year three of this proposal), we are targeting organisations with whom we already have some connections, including UK Research and Innovation, the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Arts Council England.
During 2027 - 2028 we will also review and update our Strategic Framework, particularly the assumptions we made in 2024 about the external environment and how these would affect our own operations, profile, partnerships and fundraising.
Note on Staffing
Wikimedia UK has a strong, diverse and flexible team structure which enables us to respond to new opportunities such as external project funding, including potential consortium bids. Our strategic framework enables us to focus on key priorities for the charity when making decisions about such initiatives, whilst our connections with Wikimedians across the UK means that we can grow our team on a relatively short-term basis in response to mission-aligned funding or partnership opportunities.
- 3. Proposed start date. (required)
- 2025-02-01
- 4. Proposed end date. (required)
- 2028-01-31
- 5. Does your organization or group have an Affiliate or Organizational Annual Plan that can help us understand your proposal? If yes, please provide it. (required)
- Yes
- Our draft Annual Plan for 2025/26 is available to view here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WJEPIqMCmTiLcRQgk7lw11ZFCeBermNtH1yMBGmVGCE/edit?usp=sharing
- 6. Does your affiliate, organization or group have a Strategic Plan that can help us understand your proposal? If yes, please provide it. (required)
- Yes
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Cvbuije7Htl-hzsSbe1d9KYa54kpYTqOmZy1ILHjF_Q/edit?usp=sharing
- 7. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
- United Kingdom
- 8. What are your programs, approaches, and strategies? What are the challenges that you are trying to address and how will your strategies support you in addressing these challenges? (required)
"Wikipedia plays a key role in overcoming polarisation, but this is only possible when its content is of high quality. Together, we're building a wealth of accessible knowledge, not just to inform, but to inspire action and preserve our world for generations to come.” Dr Femke Nijsse, Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter
“All of us are Wikipedia users. We all value the service.” Lord Clement Jones, Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Science, Innovation and Technology in the House of Lords
CHALLENGES
As part of our strategic planning process for 2025 - 2030, Wikimedia UK has made a number of assumptions about the external environment over the next five years, and how these will impact on our chapter. You can see the full list on page 14 of our strategy but within these strategic assumptions lie the following key challenges; some of which are specific to the UK, while others are international in scale:
- Increasing polarisation, misinformation and disinformation, compounded by the misuse of AI
- An accelerating earth crisis, exacerbated by climate misinformation and disinformation
- Diminishing public trust in our politicians, institutions, and traditional media in the UK
- Slow economic growth and a shrinking third sector in the UK
Wikimedia UK believes that within this context, our vision of a more informed, democratic and equitable society through open knowledge becomes even more compelling. However, the Wikimedia movement itself is facing several additional challenges. These include the impact of Generative AI on Wikipedia’s global visibility and reach; the need to ensure a diverse, healthy and sustainable community; and the threat to Wikimedia’s community-led model presented by the growing regulation of online platforms.
LONG TERM OUTCOMES
Reflecting on these challenges as well as Wikimedia UK’s vision and mission, we have refined and expanded the long term outcomes that we have been working towards since 2015 as follows:
- Wikimedia reflects our diverse world and is free from systemic or systematic bias
- Wikimedia is a welcoming and sustainable platform for volunteer contributions
- Wikimedia is recognised as a vital source of reliable knowledge and information
- UK society is less polarised as a result of high levels of information literacy
- Wikimedia UK plays an essential role within a thriving global Wikimedia movement
- Wikimedia UK is a thought leader in harnessing the information ecosystem to support a more informed, democratic and equitable society
STRATEGIC AIMS
For each of these long term outcomes we have defined an overarching strategic aim for the period 2025 - 2030:
1. Hold equity, diversity and inclusion at the heart of the organisation and our charitable activities, increasing the involvement and representation of the global majority and other minoritised groups and subjects.
This maps to the challenge of increasing polarisation, misinformation and disinformation, compounded by the misuse of AI.
2. Develop and diversify the UK community of contributors, volunteers and community leaders; recruiting new editors, celebrating and amplifying the work of longstanding contributors, and supporting effective project governance.
This maps to the challenge of the need to ensure a diverse, healthy and sustainable (Wikimedia) community.
3. Increase free, verified and open access to knowledge and information about the climate crisis and other important topics, by delivering impactful projects with relevant partners, and advocating for the release of content.
This maps to the challenge of an accelerating earth crisis, exacerbated by climate misinformation and disinformation.
4. Support the public’s ability to make informed decisions about critical issues by developing information literacy skills, promoting digital citizenship, advocating for the responsible use of AI, and campaigning for public policy measures that support and sustain a healthy information ecosystem.
This maps to the challenges of diminishing public trust in our politicians, institutions, and traditional media in the UK, and the threat to Wikimedia’s community-led model presented by the growing regulation of online platforms (including the UK Online Safety Act).
5. Make a significant contribution to the overall Wikimedia ecosystem and the delivery of the Wikimedia 2030 strategy through international support, collaboration, leadership and innovation.
This maps to the challenge of the need to ensure a diverse, healthy and sustainable community.
6. Elevate Wikimedia UK's influence and impact by communicating its work to a wide range of audiences; building visibility and profile and demonstrating thought leadership through our media activities, campaigns, research, publications and speaking engagements.
This maps to the challenge of slow economic growth and a shrinking third sector in the UK.
As you will see from our Strategic Framework, for each of these aims we have identified key objectives for next year (2025 - 26), as well as intermediate outcomes (including how they will be measured) for the lifespan of the strategy.
TRACK RECORD
Our strategy for the next five years—and by extension, our programme of work for 2025 - 2028, for which we are applying for financial support from the Wikimedia Foundation—is based on a strong track record of delivery and achievement in the UK. Our Strategic Reports for each of the past three years share qualitative highlights of our work and an overview of key metrics:
https://2024strategicreport.wikimedia.org.uk/ https://2023strategicreport.wikimedia.org.uk/ https://2022strategicreport.wikimedia.org.uk/
Some of our achievements over the past three years in terms of participation metrics include:
- Around 80,000 volunteer hours contributed to Wikimedia as part of our programmes
- Over 22,000 direct participants in our programmes and activities
- Well over 3000 new editors trained about how to contribute to Wikimedia
- 630 events delivered, with half focused on underrepresented content
- Half of our community leaders have been women
- 93% of community leaders would recommend volunteering with Wikimedia UK
Wikimedia UK works across multiple languages and Wikimedia projects but our results in terms of content metrics can vary significantly from year to year, depending on the particular volunteer projects, external partnerships and other initiatives delivered. Over the past three years, the combined results are that 3.5 million Wikipedia articles have been added or improved, while 33 million Wikidata items have been added or improved.
Perhaps more significantly, as it highlights the enormous reach of Wikimedia UK’s partnership projects and community initiatives, during Wikimedia UK’s three financial years from 01/02/21 to 31/01/24, there were 261 million views of articles created or improved through our programmes, and 28.3 billion views of images released under an open license and shared with Wikimedia’s readers and users as a result of our work.
With a keen focus on monitoring and evaluation, we are continuously learning, improving and adapting our projects and programmes. This isn’t always driven by which activities yield the highest results in terms of our metrics, but is particularly concerned with what works best for knowledge and communities that have been left out by structures of power and privilege. Looking forward, we are keen to implement the recommendations from our recent research (funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund) into the barriers to engaging with open knowledge for small cultural heritage organisations representing minoritised communities.
APPROACHES AND STRATEGIES
We are still developing our Delivery Plan for the next financial year (with the current draft included with this proposal) but have pulled out a few of our planned projects and ongoing programmes to describe here in a little more detail. We hope that these examples of our work help to illustrate some of the approaches and strategies we will use to meet our objectives within each of our six high level aims, over the next year and beyond.
Strategic aim 1: Equity, diversity and inclusion
The University of Leeds is currently recruiting for a Wikimedia and Open Knowledge Advisor, in partnership with Wikimedia UK. This follows years of us working with different departments at the University on a range of projects and activities, and over a year of helping to build a case and secure internal funding for a resident. The postholder will be part of the Library Research Services Section and will collaborate closely with colleagues across the Library, the wider University, the Knowledge Equity Network (of which Wikimedia UK was a founding signatory) and external GLAM organisations to promote the democratisation of knowledge.
Museum Galleries Scotland (MGS) is the national development agency for the museum sector in Scotland and has previously hosted a Wikimedian in Residence. Our ongoing work with MGS involves sector-level advocacy, including the delivery of training as part of their Delivering Change programme, which focuses on the anti-racist transformation of museums and partnerships with community organisations.
Wikimedia UK has been in conversation with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) since the middle of 2023, as they reconsidered their position on the Unesco Convention on Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage. In March 2024 the UK government finally ratified the 2003 convention, and we continue to work with DCMS to explore approaches to creating, maintaining and ensuring engagement with the UK’s inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Internally, as part of a range of activities to continue to improve our inclusivity and accessibility, we will be exploring whether we can progress to Level 2 of the UK government’s Disability Confident Employer scheme, and ether implementing this or developing a plan that moves us further towards this in our policies and practice.
Strategic aim 2: Community health
In 2025 we are planning to launch a new programme of community-led peer learning events (working title, Let’s Connect UK). Over the course of up to six events, which we anticipate being a mixture of online, in person and hybrid, community members will run sessions on their areas of knowledge and expertise on Wikimedia or upcoming projects, with expenses provided as well as administrative support from Wikimedia UK staff.
We are exploring ways of supporting project governance on the English Wikipedia—whilst of course respecting community autonomy—with a focus on Administrators. This may include support for existing Admins and/or promoting Admin-ship within the editor community, for example through a video about what this involves (featuring existing Admins) or ‘clinics’ for established editors thinking of becoming an Administrator or other functionary.
In our Framework for Knowledge, Equity and Inclusion at Wikimedia UK, formally adopted by the Board in 2021, we identified the recruitment and retention of more editors from Black and Asian backgrounds as a key priority, driven by the data provided in the Wikimedia Foundation’s Community Insights Report 2021 and our own annual Community Leaders Survey. Over the past few years we have undertaken several projects related to this priority, including a Train the Trainer for African Wikimedians in 2023 and other events, some of which were facilitated by Nigerian Wikimedian Tochi Precious in a freelance capacity. During 2025, we are aiming to pull together our learning from these past projects and collaborate with current partners and volunteers to co-create a coherent strategy for our work with the African continent and the African diaspora in the UK.
Community building work also happens outside of Wikimedia UK. For example, we have worked fairly informally with University College London (UCL) for several years, but we are now working more proactively with an academic based in UCL’s Special Collections to develop more formal volunteer recruitment pathways within the institution. There is the possibility of internal funding (from the University) to support Wikimedia activities, including heritage-related projects involving new and existing volunteers. This project is a good example of how critical Community Leaders are to the success of our external partnerships. Community Leaders are Wikimedia contributors and open knowledge champions who are often (but certainly not always) based in cultural heritage or education institutions, and play a key role in our programme delivery.
Strategic aim 3: Open access to knowledge and information
Within our climate residency there is a strong focus on improving Wikipedia’s coverage of the climate crisis, working with researchers and other experts to ensure accurate representation of a broad range of climate-related issues. We have many examples of how the project has corrected misinformation on our platform, from the environmental impact of first-class plane travel through to the impact of a warming ocean, acidification and pollution on the world’s coral reefs. As we move into the third year of this residency we will be continuing to improve the accuracy and readability of Wikipedia’s climate change content, and supporting the expansion of this work on the Spanish Wikipedia (in close collaboration with Spanish-speaking affiliates and communities).
Earlier this year, we secured funding for a partnership project with leading archeology charity MOLA (the Museum of London Archeology), however delivery is likely to extend into 2025. The project, part of MOLA’s Coasts in Mind programme, will explore ways to enable young people in coastal communities to share their knowledge of coastal change at scale. Through workshops and training, participants aged 16 to 25 will be able to communicate reliable and robust evidence about climate-related coastal erosion on Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.
We were delighted that the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) offered Adam Harangozó, Wikimedian in Residence since 2021, a permanent role in 2023. Adam sits within the team responsible for dissemination and knowledge mobilisation. We continue to support this residency as a mechanism for improving health information on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects.
As described briefly within the partnerships section of this form, we have been working with the GLAM-E Lab at the University of Exeter, an interdisciplinary lab that develops models and policies for cultural institutions creating open access programmes. The resident at GLAM-E Lab is employed directly by Wikimedia UK but has been funded by an external grant secured by the Lab. We are now developing a substantial funding bid to NLHF to continue this work into 2025, including a content-based partnership with institutions such as Exeter Cathedral and Bridport Museum and other heritage organisations in South West England.
Strategic aim 4: A healthy information ecosystem
Wikimedia UK is currently delivering (or planning the delivery of) several projects with secondary schools. This includes a project in partnership with The Hearts Foundation, the charitable arm of the Heart of Midlothian Football Club in Edinburgh; an education partnership with Mentrau Iaith Cymru, a national body that supports a network of 22 local Welsh language initiatives (including Menter Iaith Mon, with whom we have previously worked on a significant schools project); and Sankofa London Schools Project, which is focused on recovering and openly sharing the hidden histories of people of African and Asian heritage in Georgian London. Through these projects, as well as additional research and discussions with policy makers and potential funders, we hope to create a step change in our education delivery, designing and launching a scalable offer for UK secondary schools.
Wikimedia UK has worked with the University of St Andrews for several years and supported the development and delivery of the IDEA Network, which focuses on Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility in the Wikimedia projects and open knowledge more broadly. The Network, led by two active Wikimedians based at the University, has now received funding for a project dedicated to shaping Scotland’s Ethical Digital Nation; with events bringing together academics, policy makers, community leaders and Wikimedia UK to address today’s digital challenges and advance discussions on digital ethics. We will also be working with the IDEA Network on WikiConnect, an initiative that aims to tackle digital poverty by promoting inclusive practices through Wikipedia.
Following our two day workshop in partnership with the BBC and the Royal Society, which saw the creation of a series of recommendations to government; building on our role within MILA (the Media and Information Literacy Alliance) and Ofcom’s Making Sense of Media Network; and capitalising on the curricula review launched by the new government; Wikimedia UK will continue to develop our profile and connections within policy making for information literacy, with the aim of establishing better provision for the creation of media and information literacy skills, and a recognition of Wikimedia’s role in developing these skills.
Following the launch of the Changemakers’ Toolkit, developed by Wikimedia UK in partnership with the Sheila McKechnie Foundation with funding from the Wikimedia Foundation, we will seek further ways to promote the toolkit within UK civic space leadership training organisations, and within the global Wikimedia movement.
Strategic aim 5: Wikimedia ecosystem
We have been managing the Volunteer Supporters Network alongside Wikimedia Argentina since mid 2023. We are excited about the potential for the Network to become a hub for best practice and peer learning within community development, and are looking forward to working with the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia Argentina and VSN members to explore how this might work during 2025, while continuing to co-manage the Network and deliver relevant and meaningful peer exchange and skills development for people in volunteer support roles.
Wikimedia UK has a long history of supporting the UK’s indigenous language communities on Wiki, and since 2017 have delivered a (nearly) annual conference, Celtic Knot. Over the past five years the remit of this conference has broadened to embrace Wikimedians and language activists from many minority, minoritised and indigenous languages and we see this as a key area where we can contribute some resource, expertise and convening power to the movement. We are therefore working closely with the Language Diversity Hub and collaborating with Wikitongues to identify how best Wikimedia UK can support these initiatives, while maintaining an operational focus on the UK’s smaller and indigenous languages.
We are working in partnership with Wikimedia Sweden on several international initiatives, including developing an achievable, fundable and scalable approach to working with UN agencies. This builds on our considerable track record in managing residencies and our current work with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, as well as Wikimedia Sweden’s extensive connections within the UN and their experience of delivering the WikiGap project. As part of this collaboration, working with Wikimedia is being proposed as a model of good practice at the World Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan. Our partnership activities with Wikimedia affiliates have recently expanded to include the Heritage Guard Network, a Wikimedia movement initiative to document and preserve cultural and natural heritage that is under threat.
Strategic aim 6: Communications
One of our strategic objectives within communications is to develop Wikimedia UK’s position as a thought leader, promoting rich and authoritative content produced by or in collaboration with Wikimedia UK staff and volunteers. In response to a commission from the RSA Journal—which has showcased leading thinking and practical innovation for 150 years—our Chief Executive is currently writing a piece on how to prevent misinformation on Wikimedia’s platforms through collective action and resilient communities, due to be published in early 2025.
Earlier this summer Wikimedia UK launched four short animated videos, commissioned from Ritzy Studios to better communicate our work. These were funded from historic Gift Aid claims (a form of UK tax relief on charitable donations) that we received late in the 2023/24 financial year. These include a general introduction to the chapter as well as separate videos about our work in knowledge equity, information literacy and climate. During 2025 we will continue to promote these videos, which were designed to engage new volunteers, donors and partners:
- Introduction video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2HiRf-TPTU&t=21s
- Knowledge Equity video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0CrGph29Qk
- Information Literacy video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0Qq3yBq0Ok
- Climate video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByHWHFmb4Uk
January 2026 sees the 25th anniversary of Wikipedia. We see this as a significant milestone and a fantastic opportunity to celebrate the incredible achievements of Wikimedia’s volunteer communities over the past quarter of a century, as well as an opportunity to raise the profile of (and support for) the charity. As Wikimedia UK’s financial year runs from 1st February to 31st January this anniversary falls in Year 1 of this proposal and we are already starting to plan for this campaign.
FINANCES AND FUNDRAISING
As highlighted in our strategy for 2025 - 2030, in order for Wikimedia UK to achieve our aims we will need to develop the charity’s financial sustainability and resilience over the course of the next five years. With an increasingly difficult landscape for Trusts and Foundations funding in the UK due to overwhelming demand and the current cost of living crisis, a key element of our fundraising strategy will be on diversifying our income streams. Despite the challenges, we’ll continue to seek opportunities for more flexible longer-term unrestricted funding as this enables us to respond to changing circumstances and the things that matter most to our communities.
We are currently developing a corporate partnership strategy to leverage the importance corporates are placing on tackling wider community and social issues. With strategic objectives for climate and the environment, there is strong alignment with several companies’ Environment Social and Governance (ESG) goals and we hope to build fruitful and sustainable partnerships based on areas of mutual concern.
Through our website, social media, strategic report and other assets such as our animated videos and in-house generated content, we’ll bolster our digital fundraising. This will include increased collaboration with online fundraising platforms such as Just Giving, Google Ad grants, Percent, and others, to deliver personalised campaigns that raise awareness of our cause and drive donations.
Long term funding from the Wikimedia Foundation is essential to underpin all of our community activities, and to give other funders and external partners the confidence to work and support us. We appreciate your consideration of our three year funding proposal through this lens.
- 9. What categories are your main programs and related activities under? Please select all that apply. (required)
| Category | Yes/No |
|---|---|
| Education | Yes |
| Culture, heritage or GLAM | Yes |
| Gender and diversity | Yes |
| Community support and engagement | Yes |
| Participation in campaigns and contests | Yes |
| Public policy advocacy | Yes |
| Other | No |
Education
- 9.1.1. Select all your programs and activities for Education. (required)
- Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom or other Reading/Evaluating Wikipedia Training, Editing Wikipedia Training, Translation, Research, Wikidata programs, Wikimedia Commons programs, Other Wikimedia project programs, Other activities
- Other programs and activities if any: Student internships within higher education
Teaching information literacy for schools
- 9.1.2. Select all relevant audience groups for Education. (required)
- Secondary school students, Vocational, tertiary, or higher education, Teachers or professors
- Other groups if any: N/A
Culture, heritage or GLAM
- 9.2. Select all your programs and activities for Culture, heritage or GLAM. (required)
- Introducing new approaches to underrepresented culture and heritage, e.g. decolonising or reparative work; oral and visual knowledge; outreach to communities of origin, indigenous and first nations self-determination, Supporting institutions to open up their collections, data, metadata, and research, Supporting GLAM professionals to incorporate use of Wikimedia in their work, through documentation, training, or Wikimedian in Residence programs, Partnering with institutions, professional associations, and allied organizations to raise awareness of open culture, ethical sharing, and related issues
- Other programs and activities if any: N/A
Gender and diversity
- 9.3. Select all your programs and activities for Gender and diversity.
- Bringing in women and/or gender diverse participants and editors, Focusing on creating content about women and/or gender diverse groups, including biographies, intersectional topic areas and/or adding images, Focusing on creating content about marginalized (underrepresented) communities and their knowledge, Focusing on knowledge equity by bringing in contributors from underrepresented communities, Building organizer skills in women and diversity groups, Fomenting female leadership within the movement (either staff, members or boards)
- Other programs and activities if any: N/A
Community support and engagement
- 9.4. Select all your programs and activities for Community support and engagement.
- On-wiki training of community members, Off-wiki training of community members, Organizing meetups, conferences, and community events, Supporting community members' participation in events and conferences, Offering microgrants and other financial support to community members , Offering non financial support and services to community members (equipment, space, books, etc.)
- Other programs and activities if any: N/A
Participation in campaigns and contests
- 9.5. Select all campaigns that apply. (required)
- Art+Feminism, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Folklore, Wiki Loves Monuments, WikiForHumanRights, WikiGap, Wikipedia Birthday or Anniversary
- Other programs and activities if any: N/A
Public policy advocacy
- 9.6.1. What specific laws, or legislative topics, are you targeting with your advocacy plans? Please be as specific as possible. (required)
Online Safety (Online Safety Act) Education (current curricula and assessment reviews taking place in Scotland and UK wide) Copyright and AI (UK government planning consultation on the impact AI on the creative industries)
- 9.6.2. What are the main methods and tactics via which you plan to advocate for this public policy change? Please be as specific as possible. (required)
We have not included a budget for direct costs for public policy advocacy in 2025/26, however a small proportion of the staff time covered by our annual grant (mainly Chief Executive salary costs) would be dedicated to this work. We have therefore included a high level overview here.
In Wikimedia UK’s new strategic framework for 2025 - 2030, public policy advocacy falls under strategic aim 4: Support the public’s ability to make informed decisions about critical issues by developing information literacy skills, promoting digital citizenship, advocating for the responsible use of AI, and campaigning for public policy measures that we believe will create and sustain a healthy information ecosystem.
This strategic aim resonates with the global movement strategy’s initiatives concerned with misinformation, and the public’s ability to access and understand content on Wikimedia. It also supports the UN Sustainable Development Goal to ‘Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all’ (Goal 4); and ‘Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels’ (Goal 16).
Within the overarching strategic aim, we have identified several objectives for FY 2025 - 26 that relate to or include public policy advocacy work, as follows:
- Advocate for a strong focus on media and information literacy skills in schools and university curricula, and work with partners and allies to campaign for public policy initiatives and investment that support these skills across society.
- Develop Wikimedia UK’s profile and position as a leading proponent of information integrity, including human-centred content creation and the responsible use of AI.
- Monitor and respond to public policy developments in areas of interest for Wikimedia such as online safety, copyright, open access, and information integrity.
- Support global public policy advocacy through our involvement in the network of staff and volunteers leading this work; providing support and advice to other affiliates and joining up with movement-wide activities where relevant to the UK chapter.
One of our intermediate (five year) outcomes for this strategic aim is that Wikimedia UK is participating in key policy discussions and consultations in areas related to the information ecosystem and civic space. This is measured through our metrics for Policy Touchpoints and Policy Change. We also want to ensure that we have an internal knowledge bank of thought leadership research and policy positions that support the chapter's advocacy activities.
More specifically, some of our current activities in terms of public policy advocacy as of early autumn 2024, most of which we envisage continuing into 2025, are as follows:
- Monitoring the development of secondary legislation and regulation in relation to the Online Safety Act, working with the Wikimedia Foundation to respond to any new opportunities to influence the requirements of Wikimedia and other public interest projects to comply with the Act.
- Connecting with Ofcom on their new media and literacy strategy, due to be launched in late Autumn 2024 and to which Wikimedia UK fed in through a formal public consultation as well as informal discussions with Ofcom staff and working group members.
- Participating in Ofcom’s Making Sense of Media Network. Wikimedia UK has been involved in the network since its launch in 2019; contributing to the regular newsletter, attending events, and engaging Ofcom in projects such as the UN Verified Campaign in 2020.
- Meeting with Education Scotland in order to feed in to their current curriculum review, and working with our new board member Andrew Russell, a public affairs consultant specialising in the education and healthcare sectors, to develop a strategy for inputting into the new Labour government’s recently launched Curriculum and Assessment review.
As part of these advocacy activities we anticipate drawing on and promoting our research into the links between Wikimedia, democracy and information literacy, which you can explore here: https://wikimedia.org.uk/2023/05/editing-articles-civic-power-wikimedia-democracy/
- 9.6.3. Approximately, how much of the requested budget will you dedicate to public policy advocacy (local currency)?
- 0
- 10. Please include a link to or upload a timeline (operational calendar) for your programs and activities. (required)
- We have attached an Annual Plan for 2025/26 and an operational calendar for 2025 - 2028 to this proposal. Wikimedia UK organises our overall delivery plan for each year by matching our strategic aims and objectives with planned activities. The plan indicates the lead staff member for each project or relationship, a status update (as this is a working, iterative document throughout the year), and external funding requirements and opportunities. Many of our projects and programmes happen over the medium to long term—for example, some of our Wikimedians in Residence have been in post for nearly a decade— so we do not generally organise our plan in the form of a timeline. However, the organisational delivery plan feeds into everyone’s individual work plans and performance objectives for the year, which are created closer to the start of our financial year (1st February) and have more specific, time bound objectives.
We have also put together a timeline/operational calendar for 2025 - 2028 with key regular events and activities throughout the year. Please note that this doesn’t include our partnerships programme but does include key community events and governance and operational activities that aren’t on the delivery plan. The calendar can be found here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18uAlVUKbjjOVlPZQ1lQwvW-JRfQsbDzoHRW2c7mA-zg/edit?usp=sharing
- 11. Describe your team. (required)
Senior Management Team:
- Lucy Crompton-Reid, LucyCrompton-Reid (WMUK), Chief Executive Officer, Full-time
- Daria Cybulska, Daria Cybulska (WMUK), Director of Programmes & Evaluation, Full-time
- Sharon Mitcheson, Sharon Mitcheson (WMUK), Head of Finance & Operations, Full-time
- Belvin Tawuya, Head of Development & Communications, Full-time
Staff Team:
- Sara Thomas, Sara Thomas (WMUK), Programme Manager, Part-Time 0.8
- Richard Nevell, Richard Nevell (WMUK), Programme Manager, Full-time
- George Colbourn, Georgecolbourn12, Fundraising & Relationship Lead, Full-time
- Katie Crampton, Katie Crampton (WMUK), Communications Coordinator, Full-time
- Chukwuebuka Ogbonna, Finance & Operations Coordinator, Full-time
- Karla Marte, Karla Marte(WMUK), Programme Evaluation Coordinator, Part-time 0.6
- Stuart Prior, Stuart Prior (WMUK), Programme Coordinator, Full-time
- Rupal Karia, Rupal Karia (WMUK), Community and Outreach Coordinator, Part-time 0.4
- Lucy Hinnie, EriedgenArc, Digital Wikimedian, Part-time 0.8 (Fixed-Term Contract)
- Tatjana Baleta, Wikimedian for Climate at the GSI, Full Time, fixed term secondment
- Programme Coordinator (Wales) - vacant at the time of writing
- 12. Will you be working with any internal (Wikimedia) or external partners? Describe the characteristics of these partnerships and bring a few examples of the most significant partnerships. (required)
Wikimedia UK works with a very wide range of external partners, from small, local civic hacking initiatives through to major national institutions. One of the main ways in which we create impact is through our Wikimedians in Residence programme. Unless otherwise stated, all of our Wikimedians in Residence have their salaries and programme-related costs paid for by the host institutions; either funded internally or through external support from trusts, foundations or other funders.
Wikimedians in Residence produce monthly reports for Wikimedia UK, summarising their activities and identifying how their work meets Wikimedia UK’s strategic aims and objectives. Most residencies are long-term, cross-cutting, strategic partnerships which deliver against a number of our programmatic themes. All current residencies (including Wikimedian posts that have been made permanent) are listed below, from the longest to the most recently established residency.
OVERVIEW OF CURRENT WIKIMEDIANS IN RESIDENCE
Jason Ewans, National Wikimedian at the National Library of Wales This is a long standing collaboration with the Library and organisations connected to it throughout Wales, focusing on increasing access to the Library’s collections, developing more content on the Welsh Wikipedia and building a fully bilingual dataset of the works held by the Library and the people who created them.
Ewan McAndrews at the University of Edinburgh This permanent resident, first appointed in 2016, supports a wide range of Wikimedia-related activities across the university, with a focus on underrepresented knowledge and communities as well as information literacy skills. Wikimedia UK collaborated with the University of Edinburgh to create a publication
Martin Poulter at Khalili Foundation This residency started as a relatively short term piece of work at the Khalili Collections, which is made up of eight distinct private art collections which are all considered to be among the most important in its field. Last year, the residency moved to the Khalili Foundation, a UK-based charity for intercultural relations, where current initiatives include the Interfaith Explorers education project.
Adam Harangozó at National Institute for Health Research Launched in 2021 and now a permanent post, the purpose of this residency is to share health research information with the general public through the Wikimedia projects.
Tatjana Baleta at the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter Tatjana is formally employed by Wikimedia UK but is seconded full time to the Global Systems Institute as a Wikimedian Visiting Fellow for Climate. Her post is funded by an external Foundation, who have recently confirmed a third year of funding (for October 2024 - September 2025).
Lucy Hinne at the GLAM-E Lab at the University of Exeter This residency, framed as a Digital Research Fellowship, follows on from the work undertaken in our two and a half year Connected Heritage project funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, but is now supported through other grants. The GLAM-E Lab is an interdisciplinary lab that operates as part of the University of Exeter, in partnership with the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) and the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy at NYU Law.
Incoming residency at the University of Leeds As of September 2024 the university is working with Wikimedia UK to recruit a Wikimedia and Open Knowledge Advisor in the model of a Wikimedian in Residence project. The current funding is for a two-year part-time post and will be based at the university’s library.
Please see our 2019 evaluation report about our Wikimedians in Residence programme for a richer insight into their long term impact: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/WIR_Impact_Report_2012-17_%28single_lowres%29.pdf
TOWARDS A NATIONAL COLLECTION
Funded by UKRI’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Towards a National Collection is a five year, £19 million programme to break down the barriers that exist between the UK’s cultural heritage collections, with the aim of opening up these collections to new research opportunities and encouraging the public to explore them in new ways. As previously reported, Wikimedia UK has been involved in two of the five ‘Discovery projects’ that received funding through this programme. The Congruence Engine, led by the Science Museum Group with project partners from across the UK education and cultural heritage sectors, is using digital technologies to connect industrial history collections held in different museums and archives across the UK. Our Heritage, Our Stories, led by the Universities of Manchester and Glasgow and the National Archives, is developing a ‘people’s national collection’ by linking and searching community-generated digital content.
Wikimedia UK’s role as a collaborating organisation in both of these projects has mostly related to Wikidata, and has involved significant advocacy and training. Towards a National Collection (TaNC) officially comes to an end in November 2024, with a final conference to celebrate the research and development supported through the programme. However, we anticipate that there will be legacy activities in 2025 and further partnership opportunities that emerge as a result of our work, and the policy recommendations that AHRC will be making as a result of the TaNC programme. AHRC is tasked with developing ‘knowledge infrastructure’ for the UK, and we will endeavour to ensure that open data is an important element of their thinking in terms of what that infrastructure should look like.
OTHER EXTERNAL PARTNERS
In addition to our Wikimedian in Residence programme and other major projects such as Towards a National Collection, described above, Wikimedia UK delivers a wide range of activities in collaboration with the cultural, education, climate, health and open sectors. As you will see from the metrics section of this proposal, we have a target of working with 70 external partner organisations in 2025/26. We have included here a small selection of the partners we look forward to working with in 2025/26, listed in alphabetical order:
- Brixton Library in South London, where we are holding monthly meet-ups and one-off workshops
- Code The City, with whom we continue to work on civic hacking events in Aberdeen
- Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol, a government Welsh language initiative for the education sector
- Think tank for networked culture, Cybersalon, with whom we hope to run further editing events
- Edinburgh College of Further Education, where we have delivered Wikipedia in the Classroom
- Feminist Library in Brixton, with whom we are exploring how to work with their large collection
- Goethe-Institut Glasgow, with whom we hope to deliver another Art+Feminism event
- National Galleries of Scotland, where we are working on gender gap initiatives
- Ongoing editing events with Glasgow based built heritage group Play Like a Lassie
- Protests & Suffragettes, another Glasgow-based feminist community heritage group
WIKIMEDIA PARTNERS
Wikimedia UK works with affiliates across the global Wikimedia movement in different ways. We participate in, and in some cases play a leadership role within, the following groups for peer learning and exchange:
- Volunteer Supporters Network
- Executive Directors Group
- Fundraising monthly meeting with affiliate and WMF staff
- European GLAM coordinators group
- Language Diversity Hub
We work with partners in the movement on programme delivery, for example we have worked with Wikimedia Norway, Wikimedia Ireland and Wikimedia Deutschland on the delivery of our Celtic Knot conference, which is now a recognised brand within the international Wikimedia movement. We have worked on a Bengali project with the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group and the British Library, and are supporting Punjabi Wikimedians to upload notable poet Amarjit Chandan's collection of photos to Wikimedia Commons. We have also participated in collaborative editing projects with communities and affiliates from other parts of the world, for example working with Wikimedians of the Levant on a project involving Welsh and Palestinian editors.
We support capacity building in other affiliates. For example, we inputted into the creation of Wikimedia Deutchsland’s new strategy and following this, were asked to deliver training for their board of trustees and staff team. Whilst in 2023, we delivered a Train the Trainer course specifically for Wikimedians from Africa, connecting with local affiliates to design, promote and deliver this intensive training course.
We are regularly asked for informal advice from other affiliates on a range of things such as volunteer development and training, partnership working, governance, fundraising, and equity, diversity and inclusion. Newer affiliates often use our policies, procedures, strategies and reports as models for their own work. For example, all Wikimedia Australia’s policies are based on our policy documents and adapted as needed, and we have met with their team about our approach to organisational membership. We also share our knowledge and experience more formally through platforms such as WikiMove and Let’s Connect.
We look forward to continuing to play a role in the global Wikimedia movement from 2025 - 2030, working in collaboration with affiliates from across the world in order to develop our own practice and to help ensure a thriving international ecosystem for open knowledge.
- 13. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select all that apply. (required)
- Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement, Provide for Safety and Inclusion, Ensure Equity in Decision-making, Coordinate Across Stakeholders, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Identify Topics for Impact, Innovate in Free Knowledge
Metrics
[edit]Wikimedia Metrics
[edit]- 14. Please select and fill out Wikimedia Metrics for your proposal. (recommended)
- 14.1. Number of participants, editors, and organizers.
All metrics provided are optional, please fill them out if they are aligned with your programs and activities.
| Metrics name | Target | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of all participants | 7000 | Individuals who attend or benefit from the proposal’s activities, either in person or virtually. Does not include social media followers, donors, or others not participating directly. In recognition of focusing more on outreach activities towards communities new to us, this target is slightly lower in comparison to the past year, as such work takes more effort (quality) so our quantitative results may be lower too. Please note that some of our other targets, such as strategic partnerships and policy touchpoints, are increasing. With a similar sized team this indicates a different focus of our delivery programme |
| Number of all editors | N/A | NEW people who edit Wikimedia projects, creating or improving content as a result of grantee activities). Similar to participants levels, we anticipate a slight reduction because of focusing on quality of experience while maintaining the same team size (capacity). |
| Number of new editors | 900 | |
| Number of retained editors | N/A | |
| Number of all organizers | 300 | People that make sure that activities can be implemented by providing the necessary time, support, and knowledge - such as coordinators, trainers, facilitators, etc. |
| Number of new organizers | N/A |
- 14.2. Number of new content contributions to Wikimedia projects. (recommended)
| Wikimedia project | Created | Edited or improved |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 5000 | 20000 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 20000 | 0 |
| Wikidata | 20000 | 1000000 |
| Wiktionary | ||
| Wikisource | ||
| Wikimedia Incubator | ||
| Translatewiki | ||
| MediaWiki | ||
| Wikiquote | ||
| Wikivoyage | ||
| Wikibooks | ||
| Wikiversity | ||
| Wikinews | ||
| Wikispecies | ||
| Wikifunctions / Abstract Wikipedia |
- Description for Wikimedia projects contributions metrics. (optional)
Other Metrics
[edit]- 15. Do you have other quantitative and qualitative targets for your project (other metrics)? (required)
- Yes
| Other Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Gender diversity | We track gender of community leaders as a key element of diversity; it also connects with our objectives around gender gap. We believe that diversity of leadership is crucial for representation and thus bringing diverse participation. We continue to aim for 50% of our community leaders identifying as women. | 150 |
| Audience reach | This metric measures Wikimedia UK’s media presence by capturing everyone that has engaged with the chapter’s social media platforms. To note, all of our social media activity is very closely related and strategically relevant to promotion of the work within the proposal. As we develop our tools and approaches this metric is influenced, but overall we have seen steady growth here, despite losing audiences on Twitter in recent years. | 50000 |
| Volunteer hours | Hours spent on activities by people involved in WMUK activities, and by leading volunteers. This is a steady target that we have been able to meet in recent years with a consistent delivery level. Even if the participation numbers are lower, with more focus on depth of engagement the contribution hours remain similar. | 25000 |
| Strategic partnerships | Partnerships with external organisations to deliver on our strategy, active in a given year. We have an extensive and growing network, and are happy to be aiming ambitiously in this area. | 70 |
| Policy touchpoints | WMUK-led responses to public consultations, policy discussions, and interactions with policy/decision makers on open knowledge or issues closely related to our strategy e.g. information literacy. In the upcoming strategy we are putting more emphasis on advocacy work and therefore are increasing this target. Our results have been rising in this area too. | 30 |
Budget
[edit]- 16. Will you have any other revenue sources when implementing this proposal (e.g. other funding, membership contributions, donations)? (required)
- Yes
- 16.1. List other revenue sources. (required)
Individual and Major Donors (unconfirmed, this is a target figure based on previous performance) Meliore Foundation (Climate Residency) funding confirmed to October 2025 Other grants from trusts & foundations for core and restricted (project) costs (target figure) Earned income through bank interest, consultancy & training (target figure) Gifts in Kind (based on ongoing residencies)
Please note the answer to 16.2 below represents the combined total of the first four bullet points above in our budget for 2025/26, but does not include Gifts In Kind. The latter represents the salary and on costs of Wikimedians in Residence paid for by host institutions. This has to be included in our Statutory Accounts, but we have not considered it 'revenue' for the purpose of the question below.
- 16.2. Approximately how much revenue will you have from other sources in your local currency? (required)
- 442500
- 17. Your local currency. (required)
- GBP
- 18. What is the total requested amount in your local currency? (required)
- 1380000 GBP
| Year | Amount (local currency) |
|---|---|
| Year 1 | 460000 GBP |
| Year 2 | 460000 GBP |
| Year 3 | 460000 GBP |
- Requested amount in USD
- 1748142.6 USD [note 1]
| Year | Amount USD [note 1] |
|---|---|
| Year 1 | N/A USD |
| Year 2 | N/A USD |
| Year 3 | N/A USD |
- ↑ a b c The following amount in US dollars was calculated by Wikimedia Foundation staff using the fixed currency rates. This amount is approximate and may not reflect the actual currency exchange rates on the day of submission or distribution. If the application is funded, the funding will be sent in the recipient’s local currency.
- 19. Does this proposal include compensation for staff or contractors? (required)
- Yes
- 19.1. How many paid staff members do you plan to have? (required)
Include the number of staff and contractors during the proposal period. If you have short-term contractors or staff, please include them separately and mention their terms.
- We are planning on maintaining staff at the current level of 15 at a total cost for 2025/26 of £638,196. We anticipate allocating £297,298 from our General Support Fund grant towards these staff costs, with the rest to be fundraised for (through a combination of trusts and foundations, major donors and regular individual giving). Please see 19.2 for further notes on how we will allocate our grant, if this proposal is successful.
- 19.2. How many FTEs (full-time equivalents) in total? (required)
Include the total FTE of staff and contractors during the proposal period. If you have short-term contractors or staff, please include their FTEs with the terms separately.
- Our staff team of 15 is the equivalent of 13.5 full time staff due to some people being on part time hours (detailed in response to question 11). Our funding request of £460k a year for the next three years represents 45% of our expected turnover for 2025/26, covering some of our core staff (i.e. those not funded by external restricted grants) as well as key elements of programme delivery and our operational costs, which are particularly difficult to fundraise for from external sources.
- 19.3. Describe any staff or contractor changes compared to the current year / ongoing General Support Fund if any. (required only for returning grantees)
- Our Programme Coordinator in Wales, Robin Wales recently retired so this post is currently vacant. We will be recruiting someone to this post (or a similar position, depending on need), in the next few months.
- 20. Please provide an overview of your overall budget categories in your local currency. The budget breakdown should include only the amount requested with this General Support Fund (required).
| Budget category | Amount in local currency |
|---|---|
| Staff and contractor costs | 297298 GBP |
| Operational costs | 123202 GBP |
| Programmatic costs | 39500 GBP |
- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
Additional information
[edit]- 22. In this optional space you can add any other additional information about your proposal or organization that you think can help us when reviewing your proposal. (optional)
We have included here, for information, a summary of the process that led to our new strategy for 2025 - 2030, which has informed this funding proposal, and a summary
Overview of process
Wikimedia UK’s current strategy comes to an end on 31st January 2025. For our next strategy, the board agreed to look at a five year period, which coincides with the final year in the global movement strategy (Wikimedia 2030). The draft Strategic Framework for 2025 - 2030 is the result of input from staff, trustees, volunteers and partners throughout 2024. This input came through board and staff away days, online meetings (including three community calls hosted by our Chief Executive), in person discussions (including at community meetups in London and Edinburgh, facilitated by a volunteer) and asynchronous input. We also created a survey to gather input from allies, partners and funders, a summary of which is attached with this proposal (labelled Other Public Document).
Vision, Mission and Values
As agreed by the board at the start of the process, Wikimedia UK’s vision, mission and values—all of which were reviewed and updated for the 2022 - 2025 strategy—remain the same for the upcoming strategy. The values are intended to inform how we work, as much as what we do. They are used as part of staff annual appraisals, with an assessment of how people have lived up to or demonstrated these values through their work, as well as in board evaluation.
Aims and Objectives
The six new strategic aims for 2025 - 2030 represent how we plan to work towards our vision and mission over the next five years, with more detailed objectives for the first year of the strategy also developed. The objectives feed directly into our overall Delivery Plan, which in turn informs individual staff performance objectives and work plans for the year.
Outcomes
Wikimedia UK’s long term outcomes were first defined by the Board of Trustees in 2015, when we shifted towards a more socially-driven mission and strategy. The long term outcomes represent the societal changes we want to make, and were always understood to be beyond the scope of a single strategic planning period. Whilst the language of these outcomes has been reviewed and updated several times over the years, they continue to guide our work; whilst medium term, or intermediate, outcomes are defined for the lifetime of each strategy. For the 2025 - 2030 strategy, the long term outcomes have been reviewed and updated, with the addition of new long term ambitions relating to the volunteer community and international movement, and clearer links established between the long term outcomes we are working towards and the strategic aims for the next five years. We have created new medium term outcomes for 2025 - 2030; again, based on input from stakeholders throughout the strategy development process, along with the executive’s analysis of what is potentially achievable over the next five years, and a review of previous outcomes and achievements. We have indicated briefly in the strategy how the medium term outcomes are measured, whether that’s through specific quantitative metrics or through qualitative evaluation such as narrative feedback.
Evaluation and Review
The strategic framework is intended to guide our work for the next five years but it doesn’t have to remain static; particularly if the external environment changes in ways that we haven’t predicted. In any case, the strategy will be reviewed on at least an annual basis, when new annual objectives are developed for the following year.
In terms of organisations that could help with reviewing our proposal, Wikimedia UK’s former Chair, Josie Fraser, is a member of the North West Europe Regional Grants Committee. Josie is Head of Digital Policy at the National Lottery Heritage Fund in the UK and is therefore in a good position to share insights into our work and the external context in which we operate based on both her professional experience and her personal knowledge of the chapter.
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- Yes
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