Thread by @JolyonMaugham

I am hugely grateful to everyone who has contributed to our crowdfunder in which - along with @LaylaMoran, @CarolineLucas and @Debbie_abrahams - we are seeking to force Government to come clean about the (more than) £3bn of PPE contracts they are keeping under wraps. /1

We have lifted the stretch target to £75k. This very substantial sum is also considerably less than our exposure to costs should we fight and lose. But it is also considerably more than it will cost us if we succeed (and we believe we should). /2

I am afraid - although I have been crowdfunding for over four years - I have not yet found any comfortable way to balance this equation. Even where you can be confident any surplus will be used for good reasons it is sub-optimal for us to raise more than we need. /3

Your best comfort in donating is in knowing that we are a not for profit which does a great deal of work for which we do not crowdfund and that any surplus will be used for 'good' causes. /4

However, to that end, it's right that I tell you that after more than four years of me working to develop Good Law Project it is now in a position to pay me a salary which (I committed when we started it) will be no more than that of a backbench MP. /5

I, along with the rest of the staff team and Board of @GoodLawProject, want to do work which is brave and we want to be transparent about the terms upon which we do it. We can't do that work without your support - financial and otherwise - and you are entitled to transparency.