John, hundreds of people have donated to our campaigning fund so far in April.

If you were one of them, thank you.

The donations given in response to our emails are helping fund our campaigns for the Local and General Elections, allowing us to support our excellent candidates.

But we’ve just run the numbers and at the moment we’re not going to hit our fundraising target for April.

With a week to go until the local elections, and a General Election which could be called within weeks - this is worrying news:

As you can see - all of you who donated in January helped us smash our target, keeping us above target for February and March.

But April is looking concerning.

With a week to go, we’re currently on track to end the month back under target, meaning that our candidates might not get all of the support they need to get them over the line.

We need to raise an extra £14,000 in the next 5 days to push us back above target!

If 560 of you donated £25 right now, we’d be there.

Or it would only take 280 of you to give £50.

So if you’ve been waiting for a reason to donate - please do so today and help us reach our target by the end of the month. However much you can give will help.

Our candidates deserve to win - and the people they want to represent deserve to have a local Liberal Democrat champion on their side.

This country has been let down by this appalling Conservative Government - it’s time we kicked them out of power and delivered our Fair Deal.

We can do it, together. So if you can, please help.

Thank you for your support - we genuinely could not do this without you.

Best wishes,