Quote: tristram "Could we pay into the old BISA account that Adey said was still active?'"
Setting up this proposed sponsorship activity will mean setting up an agreement, an organisation and a structure through which to channel it, including IMO a bank account. IMO you really do NOT want to be using an individual's private bank account for this purpose, for all sorts of reasons I won't bore people with on here.
There is of course the alternative of using an existing, if dormant, vehicle for doing this. You COULD reactivate BISA, primarily for this purpose. This would probably save a load or reinventing the wheel, taking advantage of a shedload of work that the initial committee did. You could not just use the bank account in isolation.
If you DID want to pursue this alternative, there would be some practical issues to address - not least that you'd need to revive BISA as an entity first, and appoint a new committee. And new signatories and a new bank mandate (that might itself be less easy than it sounds). And you would have to work on the prudent assumption that the bank would need to be happy that the new committee was legitimate and empowered, and that the activities were consistent with the BISA constitution.
These were the objects for which BISA was founded, as set out in its constitution (guess who wrote most of that...)
2.1 To work together as members with all other interested parties and partners to support Bradford Bulls RLFC (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Bulls’) and Rugby League clubs in the Bradford district and do everything possible to help them to remain highly successful Rugby League teams
2.2 To establish and maintain meaningful dialogue and communication with the Directors and Management of the Bulls and other interested parties to work together to further BISA’s objectives
2.3 To present the media with intelligent informed and reliable sources of comment and information on issues affecting Rugby League, the Bulls and BISA members
2.4 To establish and maintain high quality services and communications with and for BISA members and to foster links with other like-minded supporters of Professional Rugby League Clubs
My initial take (a friendly lawyer or, that usually being an oxymoron, else even a 'Vark, could confirm?
) is that the sponsorship would be OK under 2.1 Would need to consider the implications of not doing some of the other stuff, although the communication-with-club stuff discussed on another thread could be co-ordinated through a neo-BISA too, nicely hitting 2.2.
Anyway, I was reluctant to suggest this possibility before, but since you have sort of alluded to it then there you go.
If anyone wants more info on this then feel free to PM me. I suggest it might be worth thinking about. And there are some funds already there...
In no way was I trying to suggest you should offer the full range of banking services! 
