14.01.2021

With your help

Robbie Rix reports on the Weekly Worker fighting fund

In the first monthly fighting fund of 2021 we are doing pretty well. The target, of course, is £2,000 by the end of January and I’m pleased to report that after just short of two weeks we already have £1,148 in the kitty!

Most of that, as I reported last week, came in the shape of a single donation of over £500 from comrade SK, but that doesn’t mean that other comrades aren’t pulling their weight too. Over the last seven days we’ve received three PayPal contributions, each for £50 - thank you, comrades (and regular donors) EG, MF and RL.

Then there were monthly standing orders from PB (£60), NH (£30), GD and DV (£25 each), and SM (£10), plus a nice one-off bank transfer from comrade MF for £20. All that took our total for the week to £320 and leaves us needing £852 in the remaining two and a half weeks. We can definitely do that - with your help!

By the way, the overwhelming majority of our subscribers who pay either via PayPal or standing order have continued their regular subs - and have been building up quite a healthy set of advance payments. Obviously we’re online-only because of the pandemic, but, when we (eventually!) resume printing, many will be in credit for some time.

That means that, even though our costs have been radically reduced for the moment in terms of printing and postage, our income from subs could be drastically cut when we do resume, as subscribers use up the credit they’ve been building up. That’s why we still need that £2K each and every month!

Robbie Rix