12.02.2015

If your phone rings

be ready to send all your spare cash to Robbie Rix

One comrade who has responded to our appeal for new or increased standing orders is MS, who states: “I feel I should contribute to this excellent publication.” And he is as good as his word, for the accompanying SO form payable to the Weekly Worker is for £40 a quarter, starting in March. Another form just received is from comrade DC, who is increasing his current payment by £1 a month. Every little helps!

Those new payments will be too late for our February fund, but the idea, of course, is to swell that list of regular donors and/or the amount they pay, so that we make our £1,750 target every month. At the moment, we’re struggling a bit, but I’m confident that this situation will soon be reversed. A team of comrades are currently ringing or emailing our contacts, soliciting new or increased SOs. So if your phone rings …

Just to stress how important those regular standing orders are, the total we received last week in that way was £160. That’s from nine donations, ranging from £10 to £40 (thank you, AD!).

But that’s not the only way of contributing to our monthly fighting fund. For instance, over the last seven days there were three PayPal donations from NW (£20), DF and KD (£10 each). Then there is the good, old-fashioned other ways - £10 cash from Hassan and cheques from CN (a fantastic £50) and LP (£20) - all helped up this week’s tally to £270. That takes the running total for February to £523, but once again we’re lagging behind - we need to raise well over £1,000 in just over two weeks!

That’s where you come in. Let us have your contribution by cheque, PayPal, bank transfer or … yes, standing order!

Robbie Rix