Written by TSJ | 31 March 2011
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Help us Survive

Here at The Student Journals, we provide a platform to students to express their opinions about whatever is important to them. Often there are clashes between the views of students and that of their opinion and we hope to give them an avenue to say what they truly feel. In this way, there is no editorial bias and the bias is that of the individual students writing.

We also hope to give journalistic opportunities to students. As well as giving them a platform where their work is widely read (we get an average of 10,000 pageviews per month), we have formed links with publishers and concert hosts giving students the opportunity to review books and music concerts as de facto members of the press. We can only do this as an online magazine that caters for the entire student body. We are also in the middle of forming links with film companies. We also organise interviews for students upon request (we do ensure they fit the role for the interview).

We have now come to the point where we need to ask for donations to help us keep maintaining the website. Technology costs are high (designing the website, having a capable server and general updates etc.) and we need to start creating more brand awareness, which means investing in advertising to make more students aware of the existence of the site. Not only will this mean that more students will know about the platform but it will also mean that more people will be reading.

We understand that most of our readers are students and so we have come up with a couple of different suggested donations (recurring donations require a PayPal account while one-off donations do not):

£2 monthly direct-debit - We feel this is ideal for students. It's less than two cups of coffee per month. It may seem worthless but it all adds up.

£5 monthly direct debit - For the more generous student, less than three cups of coffee a month.

£10 monthly direct-debit - For family and friends who have seen the effort that goes into running the site.

£20 one-off payment - Hassle-free (you don't need a PayPal account for this).

Donate another amount of your choice. No PayPal account necessary.

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