Sorry I haven't been in touch folks but I've been thinking about how to move forward with the project. I consider it a massive responsibility to invest your donations wisely in order to have the best possible impact. New Facebook algorithms have severely restricted access to our online support network and FB now removes posts labelled as 'spam' by our competitors. This has prevented us from choosing target locations & putting together local teams. So, if no objections, I'd like to invest in a website first and then move to print distribution?

Hi All, It seems that certain people have noticed our success and decided try to do something to stop this project from succeeding. They are prepared to play dirty and go so far as to make a small donation just for the privilege of being able to make an anonymous slanderous remark on my JustGiving page. I've reported this to JustGiving and asked them to remove the comment. They may want to investigate the person who left the remark and I suspect that even though they opted to be anonymous they will no doubt have left their payment details. :)

Well friends, we smashed out £1500 target! We can now go for a 10,000 copy print run. I'm looking into an appropriate target area for us to launch our newspaper (for the best possible impact). I've also raised the £1500 target to £3000 as this will actually give us 25,000 copies. There are a number of price breaks (printing and distribution costs mainly) for volumes between 10,000 and 25,000 (as well as above 25,000 of course), so depending on how much we can raise between now and when we go to print, we can go for an even larger print volume.