[Denver]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Its 13 million now Adam, time to update that title ...Arista teas

Spunky

[Denver]

Boris is going to reward him which could potentially see him recommended for a knighthood

[Cherie]

15 million

[arista]

Originally Posted by Cherie

15 million

Maybe its best to put "Millions"
as it keeps going up

[AnnieK]

Makes me well up every time I see him. Bless him x

[Kazanne]

He can stop now but he wants to keep on walking for his birthday now,bless him,what a wonderful man.

[hijaxers]

Originally Posted by Kazanne

He can stop now but he wants to keep on walking for his birthday now,bless him,what a wonderful man.

He needs to have a rest now ~ gotta make his Birthday , he is so lovely

[Shaun]

Great guy, but the NHS should always be public-funded and I think his fundraising would be better spent on a mixture of commemorating NHS/careworkers who have died as a result of the virus (either with a national monument or individual smaller tributes like benches, plaques, etc), and also perhaps paying for their funerals/headstones etc.

I would say treating NHS workers etc. but the sheer number of them would vastly outweigh even his campaign.

[MB.]

Is michael21 going to try and take credit for this as well

[hijaxers]

Originally Posted by MB.

Is michael21 going to try and take credit for this as well

Probably

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by arista

Maybe its best to put "Millions"
as it keeps going up

do people say 15 millions.....

I would say 15 million if I were saying it out loud

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Shaun

Great guy, but the NHS should always be public-funded and I think his fundraising would be better spent on a mixture of commemorating NHS/careworkers who have died as a result of the virus (either with a national monument or individual smaller tributes like benches, plaques, etc), and also perhaps paying for their funerals/headstones etc.

I would say treating NHS workers etc. but the sheer number of them would vastly outweigh even his campaign.

I think alot of them have their own Go Fund pages, the poor nurse who died giving birth has a fund with over 100k in it

He only wanted to raise 1,000, I am sure they will decide how best to spend it now the figure is crazy

[arista]

Originally Posted by MB.

Is michael21 going to try and take credit for this as well

No best left on ignore list

[Tom4784]

It's a nice story for these dark times but it's a shame that we have to raise funds at all for the NHS when the government should have been giving it the funds it needs to begin with.

Still, good on the man, I hope he stays safe throughout all of this and gets knighted for it.

[arista]

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Cherie

do people say 15 millions.....



I would say 15 million if I were saying it out loud

LBC radio reporting it as £18 million thus far ..


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[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by arista

Rather an unfortunate pose for a war vetran...

[bitontheslide]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Rather an unfortunate pose for a war vetran...

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Zizu

LBC radio reporting it as £18 million thus far ..


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follow the progress here on his funding page

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

18 M plus

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Rather an unfortunate pose for a war vetran...

[Denver]

It has now passed the £20m mark

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

It's a nice story for these dark times but it's a shame that we have to raise funds at all for the NHS when the government should have been giving it the funds it needs to begin with.

Still, good on the man, I hope he stays safe throughout all of this and gets knighted for it.

I'd say it's more like activism/shaming for the government though, which is a good thing. £20 million (as discussed in another thread ) is not a huge amount of money to an organisation that runs at £370 million per day, but hopefully the fact that he needs/wants to do this as one elderly gentleman should raise awareness for the fact that the government needs to provide real, permanent funding increases.

[Cherie]

He is fund raising for NHS charities which is not quite the same as funding the NHS, they have a very buzz wordy website, I toyed with donating but decided to donate to our local community farm instead, they are struggling without visitor donations

[bitontheslide]

Originally Posted by Cherie

He is fund raising for NHS charities which is not quite the same as funding the NHS, they have a very buzz wordy website, I toyed with donating but decided to donate to our local community farm instead, they are struggling without visitor donations

i have been buying from businesses that are struggling, that's my contribution

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

i have been buying from businesses that are struggling, that's my contribution

fair dues