Setting up an international memorial fund

Cailan_in_the_clouds

Hi

First time poster in less than desirable circumstances.

I'm looking for any guidance possible on how I might go about setting up an internationally-available memorial fund. My 11 month old son died suddenly from meningitis earlier this week. I am fortunate enough to have a number of friends in the US and other nations and, in the US predominantly, there is a cultural disposition to making a donation of some kind to a trust or charity in remembrance. We'd like to set a fund up that allows people from anywhere to donate and from which we could, when teh time is tright, purchase or cretae a fitting memorial to our special little man.

I'd be indebted to anyone who could advise accordingly.

For my Cailan in the clouds

Scottie

jonesMUFCforever

First of all my condolences.
What you want to do locally would not pose much problems but getting payments from abroad will be expensive.

I would check first whether your fund should be set up as a charity - then if so get yourself registered.

Good luck - hope someone else has better news for you about the cheapest way to get foreign payments into the fund cheaply.

agsnu

Cheapest/most straightforward way of accepting money in situations like this is probably PayPal.

97trophy

I agree that Paypal is the way to go.