07.04.2010

Encouraged

Robbie Rix is moderately encouraged after the first week of April

Comrade PJ confesses to  being “surprised that the CPGB aren’t larger and more influential, as your programme seems to be largely common sense”.

Not too surprised to donate a handy £20 using our online PayPal facility, though. But he was outdone by comrade TG, who donated a splendid £75 by the same method. Unusually we had as many as four internet donors last week, although it goes without saying that this is still a tiny proportion of our web readership - last week there were 14,742 people who read the Weekly Worker via our website.

Well, £115 from our cyberspace readers is not bad for starters, but, this being the beginning of the month, I can also report a very useful £180 provided by our standing order contributors. Amongst them are SM (£40), DB (£25), SD, FK and CG (£20 each). But we are grateful to every one of these regular donors, without whom we definitely could not produce our paper in its current form.

Following our failure to reach our £1,250 target in March, I am moderately encouraged after the first week of April. We have £295, which just about matches the required rate. But you may have noticed that there is one thing I haven’t mentioned - the list of comrades who sent us a cheque over the last seven days. That’s because I didn’t get any! Mind you, the two bank holidays and the small size of my mailbag might have had something to do with that!

Let’s hope next week’s post will make up for that.