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Why Donate?

An independent campaign has no party machine behind it. What it has instead is about four thousand people giving small amounts, and here is what those amounts pay for.

Empowering Initiatives
Ward surgeries, translation and childcare — the unglamorous costs that decide who can take part.
Building a Better Tomorrow
Study rooms open until seven, and a walk-in clinic in the three neighborhoods that have none.
Tech for Good
The public register of automated decisions, and the staff time to answer what people ask of it.
Regional Impact
Shared procurement work with four neighboring districts, so a small county stops overpaying.

A volunteer counting envelopes at the campaign office

Ways to Donate

One-Time Donation

A single contribution, receipted the same day and listed in the next weekly disclosure.

Monthly Giving

A standing amount you can change or stop from the link in any receipt. Most of our budget comes from these.

Project-Specific Contributions

Send your donation to one program — the study rooms, the clinics, the translation fund — and we report on that program alone.

Local Business Support

In-kind support from businesses in the district: a room, a van, a print run. Declared at full market value.

How Your Donation Helps

The nine priorities on the agenda, and the part of each one that money rather than time is the constraint on.

Community Empowerment
A participatory budget for each of the twelve wards, with residents deciding how a fixed share of district funds is spent.
Environmental Sustainability
Rooftop solar on every public building by 2032, and a river clean-up program funded from the utilities levy.
Social Equality
An independent office to review complaints against public services, reporting to the council rather than to the departments it reviews.
Economic Justice
Small-business rate relief on the high street, paid for by closing the vacant-property loophole that rewards empty units.
Education Access
Free after-school study rooms in all sixteen district libraries, staffed until seven on weeknights.
Healthcare Reform
A walk-in clinic within two miles of every household, starting with the three neighborhoods that currently have none.
Technology Ethics
A public register of every system the district uses that makes a decision about a resident, and the right to ask how it decided.
Regional Collaboration
Shared procurement with the four neighboring districts, so a small county is not paying a small county's prices.
Civic Engagement
Council papers published seventy-two hours before a vote, in plain language, with a summary of who is affected.