Running for HOPE

posted by: Nick Lowles | on: Tuesday, 19 May 2009, 23:38

Today we launched a fundraising appeal to pay for our final election leaflet. We have produced an astonishing 2,275,000 newspapers and leaflets already during this campaign but even these appear not enough. So many people are getting involved in the campaign and distributing our material that we have virtually run out everywhere.

We are now aiming to produce another 500,000 leaflets and for that we need £8,000 by Thursday. We sent out an email to the 1,000 people who have contributed to our campaign this year and within five hours we have received over £2,500. Tomorrow we will send out an email to the 32,000 people on our email list asking them to match fund our total.

Our funds have been further boosted by £300 raised by two Unison staff in Manchester who ran the Great Manchester Run on Sunday in support of the HOPE not hate campaign. Damian and Wendy are two good activists in their own right but last weekend they put on their running shoes and ran for HOPE. Thanks very much to the pair of them and all the Unison regional staff who sponsored them.