19.03.2015

Absolutely

Robbie Rix believes in you dear readers

The total we receive in regular, reliable donations crept up again this week, when two more comrades decided to up their standing orders. BJ increased his SO by £10 a month to £25, while RE has volunteered a more modest £3 per quarter, added to his previous £12. He writes: “I know this isn’t very much in absolute terms, but in relative terms it is a 25% increase!”

As I keep saying, every little helps. For example, over the last seven days £175 in SOs has come in - thanks in particular to MM (£75), AS (£40) and DW (£20). But smaller contributions from six other comrades added a further £40.

Two other readers who were more than generous were RG, who sent in a cheque for £75, and JM, who added £50 to his resubscription. Great stuff, comrades. Then there was £10 each from KR and DN, who both clicked on the ‘Donate’ button on our website. They were among 4,642 online readers last week, by the way - or at least that’s what our stats site tells us. Mind you, according to our previous server, we were regularly getting some 10,000 a week more than that, so who knows? I suspect that the true figure lies somewhere in between.

Anyway, £320 came in this week, taking our running total to £1,034. Another £716 needed in 13 days to meet our £1,750 target then - something we sorely need to achieve after four successive failures since we upped the figure. With your help, I’m confident that March 2015 will be a first.

Robbie Rix