❌ Saturday 18/10/25: CAN'T TAKE ANY PAYMENTS❗️
- ❌ "Ko-Fi" card payments & donations. Ko-Fi simply connects your card to PayPal. On PayPal, I changed contact phone, then couldn't get in due to PayPal technical problem. Advised to cancel account (!) and start new one. Started new account but they need up to 7 days to verify, meanwhile PayPal won't accept from Ko-fi !
- ❌ Bank major problems: "compliance" team said: no details of Folklife Chair Eric Payne - we set up bank account in 2004! Letter gave us 5 days. I phoned (several 40-minute-wait calls later). Santander just closed local branch. Nearest branch scanned Eric's passport, took details, couldn't get "compliance" on phone. A few days later they then rang Eric said: no details, go to branch again please. He did. Just been told no details, account on hold tomorrow. We have applied to Lloyds...
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In WALES.
✅ S. Wales: Newport Folk Club; Llantrisant Folk Club (Wales Correspondent Mick Tems).
✅ S. Wales: Newport Folk Club; Llantrisant Folk Club (Wales Correspondent Mick Tems).
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✅ Cornwall: Bodmin Folk Club; Cornwall Correspondent Lamorna Spry.
In WEST COUNTRY.
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✅ Devon: Bideford Folk Club; Pennymoor Singaround.
✅ North Somerset: Nailsea Folk Club.
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✅ Gloucestershire: Forest Folk Club; Roving Correspondent Cresby Brown (Mr Red).
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In WEST MIDLANDS. ❖ = sold by the Editors
✅ Birmingham: Hobgoblin Birmingham; Black Diamond Folk Song Club.
✅ Staffordshire: Potteries Folk Club (Staffs Correspondent David Barker).
✅ Warwickshire: Cotswold Folk Correspondent Paul Bryan. Bedworth Folk Club (Warks & Coventry Correspondent Marc Gurnham).
✅ Herefordshire: Ledbury Homend Poets & Musicians ❖
✅ Worcs: Bromsgrove Folk Club (S.Brum Correspondent Bob Bignell), Bransford Folk at the Fold❖, Rushwick Folk Club❖, Worcester Somers Trad. FC❖
✅ Warwickshire: Cotswold Folk Correspondent Paul Bryan. Bedworth Folk Club (Warks & Coventry Correspondent Marc Gurnham).
✅ Herefordshire: Ledbury Homend Poets & Musicians ❖
✅ Worcs: Bromsgrove Folk Club (S.Brum Correspondent Bob Bignell), Bransford Folk at the Fold❖, Rushwick Folk Club❖, Worcester Somers Trad. FC❖
In NORTH WEST.
✅ Cumbria. Lake District Folk & Acoustic Club (from S Cumbria & N Lancs Correspondent Steve Harrison).
✅ Cumbria. Lake District Folk & Acoustic Club (from S Cumbria & N Lancs Correspondent Steve Harrison).
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✅ Sunderland. Stumble Inn Folk & Acoustic Afternoon (from NE Correspondent Eileen Richardson)
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❌ No post to USA, as from 29/8/2025, too complicated. ~. Bandcamp says: no tariff on “informational media” (CDs, cassettes, books, sheet music, etc), but the exception depends on seller including the correct HS codes on customs forms and the US agencies processing the packages correctly (says Bandcamp). and PO admin charge, £2.50 and ??? need to send as "International Tracked", £13.90 (says Malvern PO; but I haven't found that confirmed online) and £4 for FW . . .
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