13.02.2014

Remedial action

February is a short month and we're a long way from meeting our fund target, you can help, says Robbie Rix

For some reason, there was a sharp fall in the number of online readers of the Weekly Worker last week. The figure has consistently been exceeding 11,000 recently, but over the last seven days dipped to 9,696.

However, rather perversely, the number of PayPal donations actually increased, with five comrades contributing a total of £90 - thank you, LH (£30), GD (£25), JF (£20), PC (£10) and CC (£5). For once these one-off donations exceeded what was raised from regular standing orders, with only £73 received from that source. I say ‘only’, but that total was donated by just four comrades - GD (£25), NR (£18), DV (£20) and SWM (£10). Thanks to all of them.

Finally GD sent in a cheque for £20, commending us for our “brilliant work”, while RC might have used fewer superlatives in her language, but still added £10 to her subscription. All that comes to £193, taking our running total to £488 for the month.

But I must confess to being a little apprehensive. There are only 28 days in February, so we are just one day short of halfway through it. Yet we have less than a third of what we need every month to meet our running costs: £1,500.

The situation calls for some remedial action, comrades. If you haven’t contributed anything for a while, now might be a perfect to time to make amends!