...to be furious with the bank?

[PolkadotsAndMoonbeams]

For the last couple of years, I've been the treasurer for a local committee. I have been a signatory each year with each new chair being added and the old one removed. This year I gave up the position, although remained in the committee, so both signatories changed.

I've been helping the new treasurer out a bit, because it's the first time she's been a treasurer and was a bit nervous about it, and obviously I knew how the account worked. Everything seemed fine, she was paying in money, signing cheques etc. Today she went in to order a new chequebook, with the slip signed by her and the chair - they wouldn't take it and said the signatures were wrong - after checking, they haven't been changed.

So if the bank won't allow them to get a new chequebook because the signatures are wrong, why the hell have they been allowing multiple cheques up to the value of a couple of thousand pounds to be drawn over the last six months!

Now they won't give her information about the account and are insisting they'll only talk to me and the previous chair. We are both still involved, so it's not a huge problem, but I don't like how we've been made to feel in the wrong when something's clearly gone very wrong at their end...

[JellyTipisthebest]

in nz we use internet banking for groups i am involved in. it just needs 2 people to approve each payment. it works really well

[SummerNights1986]

SummerNights - seriously, cheques are going nowhere

I think we should agree to have this conversation in 20 years, when you'll be patiently trying to explain to your dc what a cheque was

The fact that you know a business that uses a lot of cheques is meaningless. Banks are currently, actively (as in RIGHT NOW) working on steps to make cheques obsolete. They will go, they are going, just not quite as quickly as originally intended.

[RhinestoneCowgirl]

cheques are going nowhere try telling that to the Women's Institute! I'm in the local group and WI HQ insists that everything has to be cheques, it's a complete ballache.

I am definitely interested in the CAF account for our organisation, it looks like it would be just right for us. When we're feeling strong in the New Year, we will start the process to change banks (something tells me that our current bank will be as efficient as ever...)

[Justaboy]

RhinestoneCowgirl I don't think banks as we know them will be around in say 10 years or sooner.

The WI on the other hand will be here for eternity;!.