Bowel Cancer UK today emailed and thanked me and therefore thanked you - reader - those of you who contributed. I am extremely grateful to those of you that contributed.
They were curious how I was able to raise such a large amount of money. I wrote this reply to Bowel Cancer UK which I will share with you. If you are a reader who didn't contribute (I estimate 98% of you didn't - and I guess it's highly unlikely that you will revisit this page - but if you do please do consider a contribution to help a very worthy cause. Maybe this open letter prompts you to action, why is why I publish it.
Dear xxxxxxx
It's quite simply really.
I write a blog called The Oak Bloke investment blog.
Meanwhile I work for a company who (up to a point) are willing to match fund any fund raising its employees carry out. So they very kindly doubled up the contribution.
I have about 1100 subscribers and growing and around 3500 page reads a day so 41 donors was actually quite disappointing (i.e. probably only 1-2% actually donated). But such is life.
My father in law died last Sunday of cancer. His cancer began as bowel cancer and he was a typical person who didn't go to the Doctor until he had to.
So I felt I had to do something. I am delighted to share with you that he knew of the donation before he passed and he was extremely proud and impressed.
He was a hard core communist so hated my "bourgeoise capitalist blog" but respected my intelligence. I will miss my chats with him.
I am delighted that some of my readers value my work to the extent some contributed £100-£150 (which is about what a comparable subscription to something like the Investors Chronicle would charge for 6 months). In my opinion that contribution was a fair amount. Others gave a fiver. Again such is life. It all adds up.
I don't feel I can ask my subscribers again until Christmas approaches and I probably will support either the Poppy Appeal or the Salvation Army, next time. But I am happy to run another fund raise for Bowel Cancer UK in the future.
Thank you for all the work you do, and please do thank the team also.
Bowel Cancer UK today emailed and thanked me and therefore thanked you - reader - those of you who contributed. I am extremely grateful to those of you that contributed.
They were curious how I was able to raise such a large amount of money. I wrote this reply to Bowel Cancer UK which I will share with you. If you are a reader who didn't contribute (I estimate 98% of you didn't - and I guess it's highly unlikely that you will revisit this page - but if you do please do consider a contribution to help a very worthy cause. Maybe this open letter prompts you to action, why is why I publish it.
Dear xxxxxxx
It's quite simply really.
I write a blog called The Oak Bloke investment blog.
https://theoakbloke.substack.com/
It contains investment ideas and thus far I've kept the blog free at point of use.
But a couple of times a year I ask my readers to contribute to a cause in lieu of paying for a subscription.
This is the article where I asked them to help you.
https://theoakbloke.substack.com/p/help-beat-cancer
Meanwhile I work for a company who (up to a point) are willing to match fund any fund raising its employees carry out. So they very kindly doubled up the contribution.
I have about 1100 subscribers and growing and around 3500 page reads a day so 41 donors was actually quite disappointing (i.e. probably only 1-2% actually donated). But such is life.
My father in law died last Sunday of cancer. His cancer began as bowel cancer and he was a typical person who didn't go to the Doctor until he had to.
So I felt I had to do something. I am delighted to share with you that he knew of the donation before he passed and he was extremely proud and impressed.
He was a hard core communist so hated my "bourgeoise capitalist blog" but respected my intelligence. I will miss my chats with him.
I am delighted that some of my readers value my work to the extent some contributed £100-£150 (which is about what a comparable subscription to something like the Investors Chronicle would charge for 6 months). In my opinion that contribution was a fair amount. Others gave a fiver. Again such is life. It all adds up.
I don't feel I can ask my subscribers again until Christmas approaches and I probably will support either the Poppy Appeal or the Salvation Army, next time. But I am happy to run another fund raise for Bowel Cancer UK in the future.
Thank you for all the work you do, and please do thank the team also.
Have a good weekend.
The Oak Bloke
Thanks for the reminder. Wish you success in all your endeavours.