2008/4/28 Ian A. Holton <poeloq(a)gmail.com>om>: Does someone on the board have a guilty looking face, or something? Why would they suspect a company with next-to-no turnover of money laundering?

Same story here, don't try opening a bank account as an adult returning citizen. However, it depends on the bank and some have different rules & regulations or at least interpretations of the current law. For example, proof of address in some banks now has to be duplicated: two utility bills or one utility bill + .... . Other banks hardly take a look. So, as a piece of advice to the new treasurer: look around and I can recommend Abbey for being relatively good to deal with (I am not a customer (yet?) nor an employee). Ian On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 1:47 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:

David, Would it help if someone who was born in this country was involved with the process of getting a bank account? If so, then please let me know if I can help (although note that I'm based in Manchester, and am in London fairly infrequently). More generally, if there's anything I can do to help get Wikimedia UK up and running, them please let me know. I'm a PhD student in astronomy, but I'm good with computers/websites (e.g. I created the Young Enterprise North West website at http:// www.youngenterprisenw.org) and also administration in general. Thanks, Mike Peel http://www.mikepeel.net/ On 28 Apr 2008, at 13:47, David Gerard wrote:

At 13:47 +0100 28/4/08, David Gerard wrote: Is that a press release? Gordo -- "Think Feynman"///////// http://pobox.com/~gordo/ gordon.joly(a)pobox.com///

Does Wikimedia UK have the approval of the Board (of the Wikimedia Foundation)? I checked back in the resolutions on this page: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolutions Gordo -- "Think Feynman"///////// http://pobox.com/~gordo/ gordon.joly(a)pobox.com///

I bank with The Co-operative Bank (who are the only UK bank with an ethical investment policy who do current accounts), and they do a Community Banking account specifically for non-profits <http://www.co-operativebank.co.uk/servlet/Satellite/1196151412581,CFSweb/Page/Business-CommunityBanking> (which also allows you to apply for grants from the bank towards worthy causes). When I applied for one of their Community Banking accounts, sorting out the anti-money-laundering ID requirements for all the signatories did take some time, but those are statutory requirements you will have to fulfill when applying for any UK account. Yours, Joe. (User:Joeblakesley)

At 11:47 +0100 29/4/08, Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley wrote: I volunteer in a small community project, and we were turned down by the Co-operative Bank. The reason given was that one of the signatories had a County Court Judgement or bad credit rating or similar. We then approached a credit union, and we now have a bank account. This week we asked for the first cheque to be written, and low and behold, the credit union banks with the Co-operative Bank! The whole process took about six months (that is deciding to apply to the Co-op, filling forms, appearing in person with passports, and then being refused, and going to a credit union). We do not have a cheque book, but we can request cheques to be written from cleared funds in our account. We can initiate and receive BACS etc etc. http://www.abcul.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_union Gordo -- "Think Feynman"///////// http://pobox.com/~gordo/ gordon.joly(a)pobox.com///