THANKYOU all, the response to the project has been generous and humbling.

SOCIAL SCIENCE CENTRE MANCHESTER has hit its funding target! THANKYOU to all our donors. We will not let you down! Here's to embarking on a long and rich journey together! Bless the SSC and all who sail therein! May there be many more branches to follow the first two! Alastair Bonnett, that is a humbling donation, what a hugely generous thing to do! Well, we can be as 'outside' as we like, but the funding campaign has benefited hugely from people in mainstream HE being generous and open-minded. THANKYOU TO OUR MEMBERS! THANKYOU EVERYONE!

We have seven days to go! We have done spectacularly well. 63% of the target has been raised. The last few days have only underlined the need to get Social Science Centre running as a much bigger entity. We are working on that, but could you send out a call to your networks for one last push please? If you could do that it would be greatly appreciated. Deborah Withers, maybe set up the SSC in Bristol? Contact us, or the Lincoln branch. Devolution is now inevitable, so let us all devolve into socialism! Avanti!

THANKYOU ALL: I hope those of you who can will become members of SSC Manchester. I feel completely humbled by the response, we will not let you down. It's time to be ambitious and provide a real alternative AND challenge to the mainstream. This is ours. You are pioneers.