08.09.2010

Fiver challenge

There is quite a long way to go to reach our full target, reports Robbie Rix

Our September fund has got off to a reasonably good start, with £230 received in the first seven days. Thanks go to PN, GK and JD for their cheques of £30, £20 and £10 respectively - the last coming in the shape of a donation on top of the comrade’s resubscription to the Weekly Worker.

There were also three contributions to the fighting fund that came via our website, with LM (£25), GT (£20) and DS (£5) making use of our PayPal facility. Then there was the usual tidy batch of standing order donations, ranging from JS’s £5 to SM’s £40. In all we end the first week of September’s campaign with £230.

But actually that leaves us quite a long way to go to reach our full target, which now stands at £1,250, don’t forget. In other words, we still have the best part of a grand to raise in only three weeks. On top of which, we incurred an extra expense of £100 last week when we had to have part of last week’s issue reprinted, after a last-minute change resulted in the blanking out of a section of text (not very clever, that one). So it would be quite handy if our monthly target were exceeded by round about the same amount!

Once more let me appeal to our internet readers to help support this paper. While we still don’t seem to have emerged from the summer lull (once more there were fewer than 10,000 online readers last week - 9,260, to be precise), there are still more than enough among them who really appreciate the Weekly Worker, yet don’t seem to make the connection with our need for hard cash.

So let me set you a challenge. Are there 20 internet readers out there prepared to donate a fiver via PayPal? That would cover that little printing blip, wouldn’t it?