I am hoping someone can give us some advice please.

I am posting on behalf of a small not-for-profit organisation located in a small waikato country town. We are completely self-funded by donations and volunteer fundraising efforts and do not receive any government assistance. We are run completely by volunteers apart from one full time staff member. We have recently moved into our first set of physical premises after being run out of several of our volunteers homes for such a long time and we require a naked broadband connection at the property.

The problem we are having is finding a suitable ISP to provide this at a reasonable price. As we are an organisation, not a residential customer, it seems that we are "lumped" into the same category as a business and expected to pay business prices for broadband. I think this is completely ludicrous as we are a non-profit trying to run on the "smell of an oily rag" so to speak. It also narrows down our choice of ISP as many (such as Slingshot) only deal with residential customers.

We were originally going to go with Snap as per thier website, going on face value, the residential and business plans looked identical in price. It wasn't until we started to sign up that we realised the business prices were ex GST and we would have to pay $199.00 for the modem on a 24 month contract even though the equivalent residential customer would get it for free.

The modem is now a non-issue as we now have one that was donated.

We are now just looking for an ISP that can sign us up as an organisation* for a naked broadband service (approx 30-50gb/mth) without it costing us a fortune for connection and monthly charges.

If anyone has any suggestions or advice it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

*Due to accounting and auditing issues we must be able to have our account in our organisation name.