2008/4/28 Sean Whitton <sean(a)silentflame.com>om>: Or apply in the first place, I've been waiting patiently for someone to tell me it's time to join... Do we still not have a bank account? What's the hold up?

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: Yes, since I was born in Nicosia, Cyprus in 1955. I hold a UK passport, and I am a British Citzen. Gordo P.S. I wonder if setting up the bank account is the sole aim of the UK Chapter. -- "Think Feynman"///////// http://pobox.com/~gordo/ gordon.joly(a)pobox.com///

On Tue, April 29, 2008 09:21, Gordon Joly wrote: Yes, though we experienced what could be termed 'delaying actions' a signed agreement was put in place in mid-2007. Chapter. Although we have managed to do an great deal without it, sadly and extremely annoyingly it does indeed feel that this is very much our sole target to achieve! I'm not sure if it is because we have told banks that we only ever want to have a credit balance and never want to borrow money from them ... You can believe that the minute we are able to (finally!) accept payments we will be making a big song and dance about it and contacting everyone interested in being a member and donating to the cause. It has kept so many additional projects, especially those which need seed money, from starting that we are like cars burning rubber at the start of a drag strip. Alison

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley <jb(a)fsfe.org> wrote: The problem with the Co-Op is that they are sometimes inflexible. For example, their under-eighteen accounts are useless, savings-only when I last looked. Shortly after my eighteenth birthday I intend to switch to them though :) -- Regards, Sean Whitton <sean(a)silentflame.com> http://seanwhitton.com/ GPG: 0x25F4EAB7

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///