We welcomed our 1,000th online pledger on 3 August. Discover how global support for the Save Lyell notebooks campaign is shaping up. Spotlight on our pledgers Thank you very much to everyone who has pledged a donation to help us save Lyell's notebooks for the public. The average online pledge amount from our first 1,000 pledges is £118.26. 75% of our first 1,000 pledgers are based in the UK and 25% are based elsewhere. We've received pledges from 25 countries including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Fiji, Finland, Iran, Israel, Japan and the United States of America. The revised asking price for Lyell's notebooks is £966,000 - to be secured by the final deadline of 15th October 2019. The first 1,000 online pledges, together with the University's contributions and offline pledges, total £668,000, leaving £298,000 to raise. Image This article was published on 2024-10-29