21.04.2010

Big jump

Robbie Rix dares to hope that we will go much further this month

Last week saw a big jump in both the number of visits to our website and the running total in April’s fighting fund. Our monthly target is £1,250, but, thanks to a tremendous £610 received in seven days, that total already stands at £1,164, with over a week to go.

A big part of the increase in donations is down to a comrade from Australia, MN, who asks Robbie Rix “not to make too much” of his £200 gift! Moving swiftly on, then ... I also received a further contribution via the website - from WD (£20), who seems to be aiming for the title of ‘most frequent donor’. These contributors were two out of 19,823 who read us online last week - a huge leap in the usual figure, which has stood at around 14,000-15,000 for several months now.

While WD has the ‘most frequent’ title, the most reliable cheque-writer is comrade TR, whose regular-as-clockwork monthly gift of £60 has just been received. Like MN, he too is a modest supporter who does not like to blow his own trumpet too much. That’s why I feel I must!

I also want to praise those standing order stalwarts who contributed no less than £330 last week. I will give a mention to SP, MKS, MM, SK, LR and RP, whose contributions never fail to boost my total in the third week of the month.

With a week and a bit to go to raise the remaining £86 to reach our monthly target, I am daring to hope that we will go much further and, at the very least, make up for March’s £101 deficit. After all, we only just sneaked over the line in January and February, so I wouldn’t mind having the security of a nice surplus to play with in May!