29/08/2019
Today, 30 July, is the 5th anniversary of the start of the Working Class History project! So we are launching a birthday appeal to try to make WCH sustainable in the long-term.
We started from a tiny page 5 years ago, posting a small number of anniversaries, mostly about white male workers in the US and UK. By 2018 we grew to over 100k followers. We then started a patreon which has enabled us to grow into a podcast and multi-channel social media project with over 360k followers, with diverse and global content which is seen or listened to around 11 million times a month.
Patreon is a platform which enables projects like ours to get financial support from our listeners/readers. In return patrons get exclusive content like early access to podcast episodes, bonus podcast episodes, and more..
To keep expanding, and improve our podcast, our tiny core team have been taking time off from our day jobs throughout 2019. Due to our financial circumstances (namely, we have to pay rent, bills and buy food) we are only going to be able to keep spending this amount of time working on WCH for a year. If we are to continue putting as much time and effort into the podcast, researching them, finding guests and writing scripts and narrative, and keep researching new and more diverse people's history, as well as working on numerous other projects, we need more support from you, our readers/listeners.
If just 1000 people (less than 0.3%) of our followers supported us, then our project will be sustainable in the long-term. We will be able to remunerate our core team with an amount around the minimum wage, which will enable us to continue spending as much time as we are now, and will be able to develop more projects like translations and a massive website with timelines and maps.
So if you appreciate what we do, and want to see us keep up our work educating and inspiring a new generation of activists, then please do consider joining us on patreon: https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory