Hello Friends and colleagues,

We would be interested to know if your Meetings donate to external charities, in which case how that is done.

At Winchester we have in the past collected donations, on a regular basis, to pass on to chosen charities - cash, cheques or BACS.

This created a lot of admin for the Treasurer, and now we have the added problem that our local bank (HSBS acting on behalf of CAF Bank) no longer accepts cash.

What we are doing currently is invite Friends to donate to chosen charities, but not through our bank account, i.e. straight into the other charity's bank account.

We do not know how many people do that, we have no idea how much money goes to the charities, and we don't know if the charities are aware that those donations are connected to our Meeting.

We have recently bought a fund-raising card-reader, which can allow for donations to be earmarked for specific purposes, but we are not using it for external charities.

If any of your Meetings passes donations on to external charities, it would be great to hear about your process for that, and if it works well.

Thanks very much,

Lorraine