Dear Community
I am the vicar of a Church of England Church in the UK. All UK churches are charities and we have a charity commission number and I have a copy of the charity commission registration certificate. You'd think it would be quite easy to get the PayPal business account changed to a charity rated account - but no! In fact, I have been going round and round in circles since June. I was wondering if anyone could help. The latest from PayPal is that they want me to fill out a Letter of Authorisation (LOA) but when I look at this document it asks for my business registration number. We don't have one of those because we aren't a business. I've also been asked to provide the names and addresses and dates of birth of all my board members. We don't have those either - charities don't have a board. We have trustees but even here things are different for churches. I've also been asked my position in the company. Again - what do I say? I'm a priest - this isn't a company. And so this continues on and on. When I do send through my charity registration certificate it seems to be ignored and low and behold I get another email asking me for the names, addresses and dates of birth of my board, my position the company and my business registration document. I would quite like to call someone to sort all this out, but I can't ever seem to find a telephone number. Can someone please help! Many thanks, Nick
