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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.
The Remember Me campaign is on the verge of smashing through the £2million barrier thanks to a £100,000 donation from a generous Mail reader.
The stunning gift from the kind-hearted donor – who wishes to remain anonymous – means the drive to fund a Covid memorial at St Paul s Cathedral is now tantalisingly close to its target of £2.3million.
Since the Mail s launch earlier this month, more than £312,000 has flooded in from thousands of readers while £1.1million has been secured in major pledges.
Together with funds already collected by the cathedral, the campaign has now banked a magnificent total of £1,959,538.
In addition, St Paul s is expecting to claim almost £40,000 in Gift Aid which would take the total to more than £1,999,300.
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.
They have arrived in their sackloads – thousands of heartfelt letters each containing cheques from Daily Mail readers sparing as much as they can to help create a national memorial to Covid victims.
With donations ranging from £2 to £2,000, more than 2,200 touching messages – including one from a 100-year-old who survived the virus – have flooded in.
While hundreds are still to be processed, the letters have so far raised more than £78,000 towards the Remember Me campaign for a lasting tribute at St Paul’s Cathedral.
The windfall means that – together with more than 4,500 online donations – generous Mail readers have now given more than £235,000 since the launch of the drive ten days ago.