24.01.2013

Not so festive

Robbie Rix laments our festive financial hangover, but remains upbeat

 “Missed the Weekly Worker during its long absence in the ‘festive’ season,” writes EW in the note he encloses with his £40 donation. Thanks very much for those kind words, comrade, but I can assure you the break wasn’t that long - as usual, we only missed two Thursdays. (And I’m sorry you felt ‘festive’ needed to be in quote marks. Was it that bad?)

We also take two weeks off in August - the handful of volunteers producing the 48 issues of the Weekly Worker that come out every year need a break and, unfortunately, we don’t have a team of reserves ready to take their place. Nor do we have the cash to pay them - we only manage to break even thanks to the generosity of comrades like EW, who ensure we raise the £1,500 we need every month.

So far in January we have £1,167 - his £40 helped take this week’s total to £395. Most of the rest came in the form of standing orders - particular mention is due to comrades SK (who had us worried for a while, when his regular gift bounced back and forth once or twice), MM and DO. So we need another £333 in a week.

Yes, we should be able to do that, but not too many standing orders come in at the end of the month. So we could really do with comrades either getting their cheque books out (pretty quickly, please - you know what the post’s like), using their credit or debit cards after clicking on the PayPal ‘Donate’ button on the CPGB website (where we had 14,785 readers last week), or simply transferring some cash from their online account (sort code: 30-99-64; account: 00744310).

How much did you miss us?