17.02.2011

A little something

Robbie Rix is confident we can hit February's target

What’s this? A drop of 10,000 Weekly Worker readers compared to last week? As I reported then, we had 14,329 online visitors during the previous seven-day period, but this week I see there were only 4,488! However, closer inspection reveals that the web counter seems to have given up some time last Friday. Remind me to let our webmaster know.

But despite that it has been quite a good week for our fighting fund. Admittedly we only got two donations via our website - a tremendous £100 from comrade TDB and a more modest, yet still valued, £5 from KJ. But pride of place this week goes to comrade TM, who walked into our office and handed over three crisp £50 notes, with the self-effacing remark: “A little something for the fund, mate.”

As usual, we had a good number of standing order contributions, amounting to £110 over the week. They include £50 from RMB and a newly increased £25 from GD. Talking about increased standing orders, I’ve received notification from comrade JS that he’s bumped his up to £45 a month. Brilliant! Mind you, I’ve had three or four pledges for regular donations that haven’t yet materialised. You know who you are!

I also received £75 in the post this week - thank you, comrades DF, CH, NR and WI. All that comes to £490, taking our running total for February up to £951 towards our £1,250 target. It’s amazing what a couple of generous gifts can do, isn’t it? I am confident we can reach that target in the remaining days of this short month. My confidence is based on the commitment of our readers and supporters, who I know won’t let us down - even though our web counter isn’t noticing the online variety at the moment!