Re: Army veteran charity walk for NHS

The total appears to have slowed – £29,048,747 – but there's still a few days to go! Where are all those rich people who wouldn't even miss the odd few £ thousand or even one very rich person who could donate £1 million to make it £30 million?

Interesting to read that another way has been found of recognising and honouring Tom Moore's achievement:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...herts-52433007

Re: Army veteran charity walk for NHS

Queenie is going to send him a birthday telegraph .
That’s big of her why not send him a Knighthood ?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...turns-100.html

Re: Army veteran charity walk for NHS

Probably because if Mrs Windsor did it would be interpreted as a political statement supporting the defacto criticism of the funding of he NHS by this government.

Such is the nature of Momentum/ Labour.

Re: Army veteran charity walk for NHS

I see that the Post Office is creating a special postmark to celebrate Captain Tom's achievement...

ETA: Oops... see the earlier post from Baz.

Re: Army veteran charity walk for NHS

£29,201,874 at time of posting – less than £800,000 to go!

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraisi...swalkforthenhs

You would think some of the richest people in the UK would contribute what to them is peanuts,
just to make the final total up to £30 million – they wouldn't even notice it from their £ billions!
I am guessing that to them that amount is about the equivalent of a just few £s to any of us.

https://news.sky.com/story/who-made-...-year-11717733

Re: Army veteran charity walk for NHS

A last minute surge from a kindly benefactor.

Re: Army veteran charity walk for NHS

It appears some silly banker has cancelled his Spitfire flyover as not essential .

Re: Army veteran charity walk for NHS

As usual the 'Daily Mail' would not allow me to read their news online item as I use an ad blocker!
Instead I found the same news elsewhere, it seems the flyover might attract people and they might not observe 'social distancing', see link below:

https://www.itv.com/news/2020-04-28/...to-crowd-fear/

Re: Army veteran charity walk for NHS

What a load of rubbish people can stand in their back garden and watch it .

Re: Army veteran charity walk for NHS

But why should they? For that matter why doesn't Mrs Windsor stump up the same as has already been donated? Or Cringe and Ginge? After all it's mostly OUR money they have.