It’s that time of year again 503
Posted on
February 27, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Please give as generously as you can, readers. It’ll really upset the Daily Record.
Click the image to go to the 2015 Wings fundraiser siteAnd now for something serious 379
Posted on
September 25, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
More information here. Wings Over Scotland endorses (and indeed, may well become actively involved with) this event or product.
In all the excitement 193
Posted on
August 26, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We almost forgot to mention this.
Not for the first time, readers, you’ve left us gobsmacked sideways. Despite previous successes we were a little apprehensive about this latest fundraiser, as people have been getting asked for a lot of money by a lot of groups in recent months, and we were a bit worried that everyone might have donation fatigue or simply be skint.
That apprehension lasted two and a half hours.
Let’s hit the streets 823
Posted on
August 15, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
In March this year, Wings Over Scotland ran a breathtakingly successful fundraiser. We asked for £50,000 in a month and achieved it in eight hours, going on to raise over £110,000 in total, despite the bitterness and cynicism of the mainstream media.
The money has been used for various projects – we’ve already spent many thousands of pounds on site running costs, conducting opinion polls, taking out adverts and distributing hundreds of thousands of leaflets and posters and postcards and badges.
Click here to go to fundraising site.
But the main thing we wanted to fund was The Wee Blue Book – a pocket-sized guide to independence, fully-sourced and referenced and covering every important aspect of the debate, but which can be read in about an hour. We budgeted £15,000 for it, with the intention of producing perhaps 20,000 copies. But we’ve got four million voters to reach, and we need to scale that up a bit.
The state’s revenge 90
Posted on
July 13, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We were in quite a cheerful mood last night. The “indy cyclist” Mark Coburn had just achieved the goal on his latest fundraiser for various Yes groups, which meant that any extra money raised between now and the end of the project next Friday would go to the Maryhill Food Bank run by Julie Webster, which we featured last weekend.
And then we read a story from yesterday’s Scottish Sun.
From Shettleston to Maryhill 124
Posted on
July 05, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
If you’re not familiar with Glasgow, the distance on foot between Shettleston in the city’s east and Maryhill in the west is roughly seven and a half miles. That information will become relevant a few minutes into the video below.
You might want to share it with people.
This is not an April Fool 108
Posted on
April 01, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A rush and a push 88
Posted on
March 29, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We suppose we ought to give this a final shove, with just two days to go.
We’ve spent a sizeable chunk of your money this week (you’ve only seen some of it so far…) and we’re just off into town to spend some more, so a last wee top-up couldn’t hurt just to make sure we keep the pressure on the failing No campaign up.
Ever onwards 310
Posted on
March 01, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Running total (10am March 8th, including “offsite” donations): £103,163
Three shots, three goals 80
Posted on
February 28, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Let any dispute be over. Wings Over Scotland has the best readers.
Love spreads 180
Posted on
February 28, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re nowhere near done asking you for money in our second annual fundraiser yet. But with the original goal smashed to pieces in just 48 hours, we can afford to take a day off to direct you to a couple of other worthy pro-independence causes that could do with a little help just to nudge them over the finish line.
Independence debate – the case for Glasgow
A bold move by Yes Glasgow to call out “Better Together” on their cowardly refusal to argue their case for the Union, by sidestepping them and holding a major public event in Glasgow with speakers from both Yes and No sides, because there are still some Unionists less chicken than the pitiable official No campaign. Currently just £800 short of its target with less than a day to go.
**EDIT** TARGET NOW REACHED
Labour For Independence campaign
Labour voters will be key to winning the referendum. Help the party’s enlightened wing reach more of the people who will benefit most from a Yes vote. Plenty of time with this one, but also just £800 short.
**EDIT** TARGET NOW REACHED
The future of Scotland – Scottish Borders
The Yes campaigners working closest to England have one of the toughest jobs, in a traditionally Tory and Unionist region. There are huge potential gains from getting the facts out in that region, and we’re sure the folk slogging away down there would appreciate a hand. They’re a very long way from their goal at the moment, but it’d be nice if we could give them a boost.
**EDIT** TARGET NOW REACHED
The generosity of Wings readers is legendary. We know it’s asking a lot when you’ve just put your hands so deep into your pockets. But if perhaps you’ve held off donating to us in the light of how much we’ve already made, it might just be that you and these three highly-deserving projects are made for each other.
They don’t believe you exist 191
Posted on
February 27, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Our old pal Euan McColm of Scotland on Sunday and ThinkScotland (also a stalwart of BBC/STV punditry, and formerly of the disgraced News Of The World) thinks you’re all just a figment of our imagination, readers.
If you’re not following, the implication (also made by James Mackenzie of “Better Nation”) is that we’re taking the money out of the fundraiser as soon as it comes in, then paying it back in ourselves as a new donation to artificially inflate the total.
(Although we’re not quite sure WHY we’d be doing that, as it would only result in us losing a sizeable chunk of the money we already had in commission every time we “recycled” it, and it would dissuade people from donating because they saw we’d already hit our target, and finally it’d mean that we then had to fund all the things we promised to do without actually having the money to pay for them.)
We’ve offered to show Mr McColm the books, on the condition that he writes an article for Scotland on Sunday or the Scotsman, openly and directly accusing us of what he implies in the tweets above. Let’s see how that goes.
