We are an unincorporated association, founded in 1895. We are not registered as a charity nor at Companies House. The UK Government makes a clear provision that we have no need to do either of these www.gov.uk/unincorporated-associations.
We were previously advised by PayPal to set up a business, not for profit account. However, we have now reached the £2k limit. We have been in correspondence with PayPal for many months to try to resolve this but each adviser suggests something different and all end up reverting to insisting we need a charity number and list of directors. We have completed form after form and made change after change. Now we can't even cancel our account and start again since we are permanently 'under review'. It is so frustrating and, of course, there is no one UK based to speak to.
The latest advice is to change the Business Type from 'Not for Profit' to 'Sole Trader' but it is permanently greyed out. Please, please can someone help us because we are at our wits end???
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