This Christmas, we are appealing for money for a very important and most deserving cause. It is a cause that we know is close to our readers hearts.
All around the world democracy is under threat from dictators, despots and desperadoes who spread their lies, half-lies and half-truths using dodgy social media sites, spam email and partisan, corrupt and biased media. There are broadcasters and newspapers controlled by shadowy conspiracy theorists, right wing think tanks, oligarchs, monopolists, fascists, misogynists, capitalists and nihilists. But there is some good news. This Christmas, YOU can help to stop the madness.
This Christmas, YOU can help to secure an impartial, independent and free press. Please send your cheques, large or small, to The Guardian Christmas Appeal For The Guardian.
If you are considering leaving us a gift in your will, then please don't, unless you're already quite ill. We can't wait for you to croak to get the money.
A gift of three pounds can buy a weekday copy of The Guardian to help wean someone off GB News. Five pounds can pay to recycle a 'Save The Observer' placard. Ten pounds can provide a journalist with software to check spellings. Fifty pounds can subsidise a place at a Guardian lunch for a retired university vice chancellor. And five million pounds could help to pay off the loans we took out for the printing press we bought to print The Guardian in that weird European Berliner size.
Your generosity can help teachers, civil servants, professors, local government workers, academics, social workers and lecturers everywhere, by providing a warm, fuzzy, left wing echo chamber for these marginalised groups.
Please help. A free press isn't free, so please give genetically. Thank you.
The Guardian
*The Guardian is registered as a charity and is regulated by the Charity Commission. The Guardian complies with the Fundraising Regulator’s code of practice on begging.
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