23.02.2012

Trend-breaking

Why not be a trend setter and help out the best paper on the left with a donation or standing order, says Robbie Rix.

Our February fund has been boosted by two generous additions: the fantastic £230 from SK - a regular donor - and £200 from PM, made by bank transfer. I must also mention the £75 from MM among this week’s standing orders, plus the PayPal donation of £13 from MS and the fiver that PM added to his resubscription.

Altogether we received £583 over the last seven days, which definitely takes us within sight of our monthly £1,500 target for February. There is just under a week remaining to make the extra £223 we need - this month’s fund will close at 5pm next Wednesday, February 29. But, of course, I am hoping for another week like this last one, so we not only smash through the £1,500 barrier, but go on to make up for January’s deficit of £147 - and more.

These past few weeks I have been reporting a steady rise in our online readership and I am pleased to say the trend seems to be continuing - with more than a thousand extra web readers compared to last week. But, although there were 24,748 visitors to cpgb.org.uk, MS was the only one to make a donation. This tiny ratio of donors to readers is also a continuing trend, unfortunately.

But negative trends are there to be broken. And it won’t take that many of you, will it?!