02.06.2010

Surprise!

Robbie Rix says that web contributions are still nowhere near enough

I am pleased to say that we ended May £25 above target, having raised a total of £1,275 over the month. Thanks in particular to JT (£50), TB (£40), PW (£10) and OS - who describes his £5 as a “token gesture of solidarity” from the US.

Later this month sees the beginning of the CPGB’s annual fundraising drive, our two-month Summer Offensive. So from June 19 all cash raised for the Weekly Worker will be included in the SO total (although monies donated specifically to the paper will, of course, be used for that purpose).

In the meantime, however, we have the first part of June to think about - I could do with raising £850 before June 19. That includes the extra £200 a month we are having to fork out for printing at the moment (which, by the way, we failed to cover through extra donations in May). Anyway, we start this month’s rather curtailed fighting fund with £95, having received that amount in standing orders since June 1. So that leaves us just over two weeks to pull in the remaining £755.

Last week four of the contributions received came via the web - a little up on the usual two, but still nowhere near enough. After all, there were 14,748 online readers of last week’s Weekly Worker, so it would be really nice if a rather higher percentage could help us out.

Perhaps they’re all waiting to surprise us once the Summer Offensive starts!