The end of a disappointing week for the Fund with just £342 received today. Our regulars at the standing orders counter chipped in with £262 and I was glad to receive £30 from a Barnet councillor.

Barnet is of course where the Tories propose to privatise anything that moves, extract as many shekels as they can out of the long-suffering population and then queue up for their gongs for services to local government.

Good to know that resistance is alive and well in the members lounge there.

Thanks also for welcome gifts from Chichester and around the country.

I love you all you know but my hand is shaking as I write this. Our daily totals are too small to be able to reach our monthly target.

If I am unsuccessful in persuading you to donate lots more than you have this week, people come into my office and shout at me, sometimes in more than one language.

My aim always is to secure a haven of peace and tranquility and I would ask you over this weekend to be as generous as you can and send me some nice juicy daily bundles full of hard-earned cash.

That would stop me moaning and help equip your daily paper for the challenges we face during 2012 and beyond.