{"id":314,"date":"2026-11-05T23:03:30","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T23:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.actionfunder.org\/non-profits\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=314"},"modified":"2026-11-06T11:51:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T11:51:51","slug":"our-organisation-already-has-an-account-how-do-i-get-access","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/help.actionfunder.org\/non-profits\/help\/our-organisation-already-has-an-account-how-do-i-get-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Our organisation already has an account. How do I get access?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ask one of your organisation&#8217;s admins to invite you from <strong>Settings<\/strong> &gt; <strong>Team<\/strong>. If you don&#8217;t know who the admin is, or they&#8217;ve left, contact us and we&#8217;ll get the right person access. Don&#8217;t create a second account for the same organisation: it splits your projects and can slow down payments.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">If you know who the admin is<\/h2>\n<p>Ask them to invite you. It takes them a minute. <a href=\"https:\/\/help.actionfunder.org\/non-profits\/help\/add-team-members-to-your-organisation\/\">Adding team members<\/a><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>They click their organisation&#8217;s logo at the bottom of the left-hand menu, then <strong>Settings<\/strong> &gt; <strong>Team<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>They click <strong>Invite to team<\/strong> and enter your name and email address.<\/li>\n<li>You get an email invitation. Click the link in it to set up your login.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Invite links last 14 days.<\/strong> If yours has expired, you&#8217;ll see <strong>This invite has expired<\/strong>. Ask whoever invited you to click <strong>Resend<\/strong> on the <strong>Pending invites<\/strong> tab. The new email has a fresh link, and the old one stops working.<\/p>\n<p>No email? Check your junk or spam folder, and add hello@actionfunder.org to your safe senders.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">If you saw &#8220;An organisation with a similar name is already signed up&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>When you sign up, ActionFunder checks for organisations with a similar name and lists them with their city.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>If your organisation is listed,<\/strong> don&#8217;t click <strong>Create anyway<\/strong>. Click <strong>Contact<\/strong> next to it. This opens an email to our team in your own email app, with the subject &#8220;Request to join organisation&#8221; and the organisation&#8217;s name. It doesn&#8217;t go to the organisation, and nothing is sent until you send it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Add some details before you send it:<\/strong> your name, your role at the organisation, and the email address you&#8217;d like to use on ActionFunder. A blank email slows things down, because we have to write back to ask.<\/li>\n<li><strong>If your organisation isn&#8217;t listed,<\/strong> click <strong>Create anyway<\/strong> to carry on signing up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">If you don&#8217;t know who the admin is, or they&#8217;ve left<\/h2>\n<p>Every team on ActionFunder must have at least one admin, and admins can&#8217;t leave without handing over to someone else. But if your admin has left your organisation without doing that, nobody may be able to sign in.<\/p>\n<p>Contact us at hello@actionfunder.org. Tell us:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>your name and role at the organisation<\/li>\n<li>the organisation&#8217;s name, as it appears on ActionFunder<\/li>\n<li>the email address you&#8217;d like us to add<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Write from your work email address if you can. We&#8217;ll contact your organisation&#8217;s admin to ask for their permission to add you. Once they agree, we&#8217;ll add you to the team and you&#8217;ll get an invitation email. It&#8217;s the same invite as above, so it lasts 14 days.<\/p>\n<p>Once you&#8217;re in, make sure anyone who has left is removed from the team (an admin can do this, or we can), and check the organisation&#8217;s contact details and key people are up to date. <a href=\"https:\/\/help.actionfunder.org\/non-profits\/help\/what-to-do-with-my-account-if-i-leave-my-organisation\/\">Leaving your organisation<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/help.actionfunder.org\/non-profits\/help\/why-we-ask-for-key-people-information\/\">Key people: who to add and why<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Questions?<\/h2>\n<p>Our team is around Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Email: hello@actionfunder.org<\/li>\n<li>Phone: 020 3805 2835<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask one of your organisation&#8217;s admins to invite you from Settings &gt; Team. If you don&#8217;t know who the admin is, or they&#8217;ve left, contact us and we&#8217;ll get the right person access. 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