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Summer Offensive 
Over the top!
We’ve done it again! Not only did
we meet our £25,000 target - we bust right through it. Members,
supporters and friends of the CPGB have raised just over £26,500
in the months of June and July. Well done, everybody.
Even on the morning of our Summer Offensive
meal (which always marks the official end of our fundraising period),
comrades were still handing over those much needed cheques, taking
us comfortably over the top.
National organiser Mark Fischer handed
prizes to four members of the organisation who did particularly
well this year. Comrade EG from Wales, who fought his first ever
offensive as a member, raising almost three times the amount of
money he originally pledged, was particularly commended. “This
just goes to show that it is relatively easy to raise the cash,
once you put your mind to it,” commented Mark.
Comrades from Wales generally did very
well indeed. CR from Newport came second overall, narrowly ‘beating’
comrade MM from Oxford, who also participated in his first ever
Summer Offensive. However, by far outstripping all other comrades
was SK from north London, who is a veteran when it comes to fundraising
for the party. He raised £2,280 and his name appears no fewer
than six times as the winner on our Summer Offensive trophy.
But it is not all good news. We observed
that sympathisers and supporters of the party were less generous
than in previous years - despite the fact that the readership
of the Weekly Worker, particularly on the web, has steadily
increased over the recent period. There were donations, of course,
but the vast majority of the money has been raised by members
and very close supporters.
If all regular readers of the paper had
donated just £5 each, we could have raised at least three times
as much money (the combined readership of our online and hard-copy
edition is roughly 10,000 per week.
No need to feel ashamed though. And certainly
no need to wait until next year’s Summer Offensive to show your
appreciation. Back in ‘normal fundraising mode’, we need our readers
to send us regular donations to meet the Weekly Worker’s
running costs of at least £500 per month.
So if you didn’t do your bit for this year’s
SO, how about making up for it by taking out a regular standing
order? One-off donations are still much appreciated, too, of course.
Robbie Rix will be back from next week to record your contributions
in his weekly ‘Fighting fund’ column.
Now onwards to the 20th Summer Offensive!
Tina Becker
Send cheques, payable to CPGB, BCM
Box 928, London WC1N 3XX or donate online:
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