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@Velocio
Incredibly well.
The serious money came within the first few hours, and it's tailing off to a slow dribble of much smaller figures.
But... we raised enough for the next month within an hour or so of my putting the banner up and the call out.
As to our arrears, which have been accrued over 6 months and are just shy of 3 months full cost (approx half of the costs each month for the last 6 months I've covered), we've already covered almost 2 months full cost of those.
Meaning we've raised just shy of £3k since launching the campaign, have £1k to go to put us at zero (and paid to the end of May), after which every bit extra buys more time.
Also, we've never had this many donors before, nor have they ever been so generous. Usually we have a small core who will do subscriptions at mostly the lowest level (quarterly subscriptions were way more popular than monthly ones), and one-off donations tended to hover around the £10 > £20 mark. Yesterday saw more people move to the monthly subscription, and more one-off donations of a larger size. More than a few people threw £100 or more into the coffers.
The most important bit of that is that with more monthly donors we won't have a large a gap in future months even if we go back to ignoring the finances (the best place to be).
Besides... hopefully the affiliate stuff will recover fully once the sun comes out.
We're doing damn well, and I very much doubt we'd need to keep banging the drum throughout May, once we're in the black and it looks like we have half of June covered too I'll pull it down early.