Internet Watch Foundation

No increase in the minimum subscription thresholds of £20K, £5K and £500.

Members subscribing above £20K reduced to £20K

Minor adjustments taken into account should some members withdraw or reduce their subs, recognising the possibility of some consolidation within the industry

No change to current IWF staffing levels.

Reserve of approx £300K (6 month operating costs) will be achieved.

Forecast assumes inflationary uplift only.

Marketing budget increased to enhance our visibility to the public, media, and other stakeholders, limited sponsorship sought.

Any potential tax advantages of switching from NFP to charitable status not factored in.

Any income generated by the IWF trading arm to be gift aided to IWCF

£50K income generated from possible commercialisation of the CAI database added, generated through the trading arm.

Recruitment of new members likely, but none included in the forecast

Cost of a replacement resource management database system included.

Capacity to absorb potential increase in reports as more households go online.

Capacity to absorb potential increase in reports as take up of next generation portable communication and data devices and associated services take off.

Capacity to cope with increased interest in our role and remit pre and post general election.

Capacity to absorb any potential increase in obscenity takedowns should the authorities determine that landing pages of adult websites hosted in the UK contravene the Obscene Publications Act.

Capacity to absorb any potential change to the race hate laws to include religious hatred, should the Government, our Board and stakeholders agree that we should add this issue to our remit.

 

We are confident that we will continue to receive funding from the EU through the Safer Internet Action Plan when the current contract expires in March 2006, but probably at a reduced level. The reason for saying this is because there is a possibility that there will be many more new EU hotlines created because of the enlarged EU. It is expected that new start ups will be funded to the tune of 100% and once that resource is committed then funding applications for existing hotlines will be considered. The APACS project, worth £60K per annum expires in June 2006.  We need to think about the scenario of a reduction in both cases but as the landscape is very uncertain it is too soon to prepare for that eventuality now.