[foundation-board] Panton Fellowships operations - RFC

Tue Jan 3 11:53:09 UTC 2012

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Laura James <laura.james at okfn.org> wrote:
> Board,
>
> With Shuttleworth support, the OKF wishes to offer Panton Fellowships
> this year. As fellowships are a new endeavour for us, and with
> "fellowship" a potentially loaded term, we wanted to run the
> operational documents past the board (and particularly Jordan) in case
> there are any red flags.
>
> The first document below gives the programme outline, and the second
> is a draft agreement we would expect Fellows to sign up to.  We have
> followed existing practice from other bodies offering "additional"
> fellowship-style support to researchers as far as possible.
>
> Panton fellowships call for applicants:
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rRNFX7mcg6t1UziGtE1Dx7wEBxyAKmxfHjIdwCyrdeg/edit
>
> Panton Fellowships agreement:
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sucuEeNBaPsR5G_piK-518o_AWanX1jxTkpM3j7KZ8M/edit
>
> If I don't hear any concerns by Friday we'll move ahead to fix a
> timetable for applications and put out the call.

Nice.

However...

a) The agreement doesn't seem to say they need to follow the
principles themselves, which seems a little odd.

b) "This is not employment" - is that sufficient to avoid tax
liability (particularly PAYE)? Have we checked?

>
> Best regards,
>
> Laura
>
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