Good afternoon Friend
Did you catch my email last week? We’re crowdfunding for social media ads to boost the number of signatures on our government petition to return the assisted dying debate to Parliament.
Our amazing supporters have already hit our £30,000 fundraising target - but there’s always more work to do. We’ve raised our target to £40,000 so that we can push harder to surpass 100,000 signatures and show MPs how urgently this law needs to be changed.
Thanks to the donations we’ve received so far, in the last week alone 13,000 new people have signed our petition bringing us to 73,000 - you can get us to our next milestone by donating today.
Last week's email is below with more information about what we’re fundraising for and how your donation will help. Thanks in advance for your support.
All best wishes,
Sadie Kempner
Dignity in Dying
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Good afternoon friend,
Today, you have an opportunity to get the assisted dying debate back in front of MPs. Our government petition has more than 60,000 signatures which is incredible progress. If you are among those thousands, thank you so much for signing. But we need to get to 100,000 to secure a debate in Parliament.
Can I count on you to donate £21, or whatever you can, to power our social media adverts and reach those final 40,000 people? Every £21 raised means 11,760 people could see our ads promoting the petition and bring us one step closer to that all important debate.
Our campaigning in the House of Lords has been very successful. But to secure change, we need to keep MPs thinking about assisted dying. Once we reach 100,000 signatures, we can turn our efforts back to the House of Commons and make sure that every MP in the country knows the strength of support in their constituency.
We need to raise £30,000 in the next month to fund this piece of work. If we can get these adverts up and running soon, it will cost a little under a pound per signature to reach these new supporters. Your donation will have a tangible, direct result.
If you haven’t yet, please sign the petition yourself, share it to your friends, family and networks and chip in what you can to get us to 100,000 signatures and our next parliamentary debate.
Here’s the full petition link if you need it: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/604383
Ultimately, it's MPs who will decide the fate of any future Assisted Dying Bill. We can’t let them rest on their laurels.
Thank you for all your help so far - I’ll be in touch soon to let you know about our progress.
P.S. Chip in today and help us reach our target of 100,000 signatures by our June deadline.
