The Raikes Journal

The Raikes Journal

How you can support Raikes' mission

Raikes is here to tell Gloucestershire's stories, to help build community, celebrate achievement and showcase individuals and organisations making a difference. Here's how you can help make it happen.

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Andrew Merrell
Dec 01, 2020
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More on membership?

You can subscribe to Raikes for £12.50 a month - or for a year for £120. That’s just 33 pence a day to support and celebrate your community. Groups of two or more who sign up at once get a 25 per cent discount on an annual subscription too.

And if you like the idea so much you can become a ‘founding member’, which is where you pledge more than £120 a year (see our subscriptions page). If you sign up for £250 or more we will write a few words about you, your business, or maybe an event you are staging/an achievement you’ve made/a fundraising push you are launching, and run it with a picture on our email newsletters for a week (all three newsletters).

We want you to think of paying for that subscription like crowdfunding. You are not just buying a service, you are making everything Raikes does possible and helping us achieve our ultimate goal - to build a community website shaped by that very community to promote community.

Members will get not just access to the main st…

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