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Just four weeks after the St Paul s Cathedral fundraising drive was launched, it reached the milestone last night thanks to the incredible support of Mail readers and a string of donors.
Former GP Mary Caroe, from Surrey, died of Covid in hospital last April, aged 83
Daily Mail launched campaign to create memorial to lives lost during pandemic
Mary s son, Oliver Caroe, 52, is the architect of the Remember Me inner portico
Almost 9,000 Daily Mail readers have helped chip in to the Remember Me fund
Campaign is closing in on £2.3 million target to build remembrance landmark
Whether sent in at the click of a button or as a handwritten cheque in the post, donations from nearly 9,000 Mail readers have now helped us reach a stupendous £303,000 for the Remember Me campaign.
Your immense generosity has helped the drive for a national memorial to Covid victims at St Paul’s Cathedral reach a magnificent £1.7million.
Leaders at the London landmark, who have joined forces with the Mail to help raise £2.3million for the tribute, said they were ‘amazed and deeply moved’ by the kindness of our readers.
It has been just 18 days since the campaign launched. Yet more than 3,350 cheques – totalling £123,845 – have already arrived, including one from a 100-year-old reader who survived Covid.