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I work for a registered charity that has volunteer groups across the UK raising funds by selling items on eBay (amongst other fundraising activities). The items sold are mainly donated by the public. The selling is undertaken by a designated volunteer within each group, who will typically use their personal eBay account to sell each item, and then either select for 100% of the proceeds to come to the charity, OR they sell it as a private seller in the usual way and transfer the proceeds to their volunteer group's bank account - where it is then forwarded to the charity as part of the group's general fundraising transfers. All the proceeds come to the charity (note that gift aid is not claimed for this) - though sometimes an agreed amount may be kept back by the volunteer group to cover some of their operational costs. These volunteer sellers often raise over £1000 per year via their eBay accounts in this way, but based on previous conversations we've had with HMRC they are told that they won't have to declare this income to HMRC, as long as they can evidence that the funds went to our charity - either directly or via their relevant volunteer group's account. I wanted to check this is correct? Thanks