At last, we have a bank account!

Starting anything during the COVID lockdowns was going to be tricky but getting a bank account to manage the hnl21 event finances and such was humanly impossible. And it was not for want of trying. Several abortive trips around South Wales led to the unsatisfactory holding position of sharing one of our private accounts. Thankfully, we are all sorted now with an official ‘treasurer’s account’ with Lloyds so thanks to them for making the process relatively straightfoward, even if their error (about which they were profusely apologetic) led to a 2 month delay. In the scheme of things, that was not a big deal! We had used a gofundme page to take donations towards the hnl21 event but that’s shut due to inactivity. If you would like to send us money, please get in touch by email to info@hanfod.NL and we’ll share the relevant details.

We aim to provide full financial transparency to our ‘parent’ organisation, the Networked Learning Conference Consortium (NLCC) by providing a financial statement at our spring annual general meetings and our Chair, Nina, is also a core member of the business group of the NLCC.

GoFund hanfod.NL :)

After months of persistent phoning and thinking of ways forward, Mike and Felicity met at Barclays Llanelli so that we could arrange to ‘wet sign’ a mandate to share a bank account and secure full access and transparency viz hanfod.NL funds. This paved the way for reclaiming expenses from last year and setting up a GoFundMe page so that we can receive donations. We have set up hanfod.NL as a non-profit and, from the initial vision, the events we organise are free… but that does not mean they are cost-free to us! If you would like to share the burden, or even just encourage us in this work – totally done in our ‘spare time’ (ridiculous phrase when Felicity is home-schooling!) – please do donate something, however small. Thank you!