As we've said elsewhere, Exilian is a non-profit organisation, supported entirely by donations. Running the forum and other parts of the website costs us real money (at the time of writing, about GBP 5.50 / EUR 6.30 / USD 7.70 per month). In addition, we aim to support creative projects, by our own members and others, and this often involves advertising or other real-world expenses. So we would very much appreciate more donations.
Here are the ways you can donate to us:
UK bank transfersmainly for people with UK bank accounts- For one-off donations, you can transfer money from your bank account to Exilian's - see details below.
- For regular donations (e.g. so much at the start of each month), you can set up a "standing order" with your bank - a bit like a direct debit, this is an instruction to them to transfer a fixed amount at the same time every month. You can usually do this online, again using the bank details below.
Exilian's bank details are:
- bank name: HSBC
- sort code: 40-16-08
- account number: 64236033
- account name: Exilian
If you want to go old-school, you can also write a cheque, payable to "Exilian", and send it to Exilian, 6 Ainsworth Court, Cambridge, CB1 2PA.
People outside the UK can also send money to UK bank accounts, using various reference numbers to identify them. However, there will almost always be currency conversion charges, and often other transfer charges too. For international transfers from other EU countries, these should be quite reasonable; from outside the EU they're often prohibitively expensive.
PayPalWe have a PayPal account, linked to e-mail address sakellarios@exilian.co.uk - you can search for this from your own PayPal account and send us money that way. We can't currently add a PayPal donation button to the forum, but we're working on it.
One thing to watch out for: the currency on that PayPal account is UK pounds (a.k.a. sterling) - if you send an amount in another currency, there will be a conversion charge, deducted from the amount we receive. As far as I know, you can specify an amount in UK pounds, in which case PayPal will charge you for the conversion.
Liberapay
This is another payment website, intended specifically for recurring donations to individuals and organisations. If you want to donate this way, please go to our Liberapay donation page, and follow the instructions. If you don't already have an account with them, you will need to transfer some money to them first, which might then be quarantined for a period as an anti-laundering measure. We have now verified that their system works as expected, and we can get donations out of Liberapay, so feel free to use it.16 July 2018: please do NOT use Liberapay for the time being: their payment processing company is kicking them out, and they can't handle payments until they have a new payment company in place.
