IMPORTANT: Please include your forum username in your PayPal donation or any donation made.
It's that time of year when we need to pay for web hosting and forum software licence renewals, we will still have AI moderation to help keep us safe and on the right side of the Online Safety Act, however, we don't need to renew that this year as the wonderful @MattW has sourced us a better version. Unfortunately hosting prices - (cost of living increase) will have to increase, but we save on AI mod renewal so our annual outlay won't increase by much. The forum will cost us approx £800 this year to run, we rely on donations to keep us running. Otherwise, I'll have to send Midnight and MrsHogg out delivering parcels - and they're too precious for that.
Any donations - no matter how small - are greatly appreciated as it all helps cover the cost and it all adds up. We rely on the generosity of our community to keep us running so donations are vital to enable us to exist.
Donations can either be made to the forum PayPal account, by bank transfer, or by cheque made payable to myself. As the PM system is switched off, to obtain the details, get in touch via the contact button at the bottom of the forum. I need to make this clear once again, this is a donation to help run the forum, you are not paying for a service, the service of course is free to anyone to use, but without donations, we would find it very difficult to run due to the high cost involved.
You must be over 18 to make a donation this is not negotiable, once again, please don't forget to add your username to your donation, I cannot stress this enough, I had several anonymous donations last year and spent a lot of time tracking them down to give them their banner. (Once a policeman, always a policeman
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In return you get a nice colourful banner underneath your name saying 'Forum Donator 2026/27 and the right to add a signature to your profile. Not to mention a nice warm glow inside for helping keep the forum running!
Last year, donations paid for our hosting (courtesy of the fantastic @MattW), software licence renewals, theme updates, domain name, email services and AI moderation. (Not to mention the champagne used for filling the staff room jacuzzi! )
In the face of competition from facebook we are still holding our own and keeping our community and repository of information on guinea pigs alive and up to date making us one of the most successful active Guinea Pig Online Communities across the globe.
I will provide a full breakdown of donations received with data anonymised and how the money is spent to anyone that requests it.
Once our target is reached, I will close and lock this topic.
Thank you once again for being part of this community and making it the place it is. On behalf of the admin team, mod team, and myself, we would like to thank you for making the forum a supportive and kind place to be, you are all awesome and I am extremely humbled to belong to such a great community.
Thanks Tom (BossHogg)
(Please bear with me if I take a while getting back to you, I am an operational front line motorway traffic officer and I may be busy at work - or sleeping between nights!)
If you donated last year, the banking and PayPal details have remained the same.
It's that time of year when we need to pay for web hosting and forum software licence renewals, we will still have AI moderation to help keep us safe and on the right side of the Online Safety Act, however, we don't need to renew that this year as the wonderful @MattW has sourced us a better version. Unfortunately hosting prices - (cost of living increase) will have to increase, but we save on AI mod renewal so our annual outlay won't increase by much. The forum will cost us approx £800 this year to run, we rely on donations to keep us running. Otherwise, I'll have to send Midnight and MrsHogg out delivering parcels - and they're too precious for that.
Any donations - no matter how small - are greatly appreciated as it all helps cover the cost and it all adds up. We rely on the generosity of our community to keep us running so donations are vital to enable us to exist.
Donations can either be made to the forum PayPal account, by bank transfer, or by cheque made payable to myself. As the PM system is switched off, to obtain the details, get in touch via the contact button at the bottom of the forum. I need to make this clear once again, this is a donation to help run the forum, you are not paying for a service, the service of course is free to anyone to use, but without donations, we would find it very difficult to run due to the high cost involved.
You must be over 18 to make a donation this is not negotiable, once again, please don't forget to add your username to your donation, I cannot stress this enough, I had several anonymous donations last year and spent a lot of time tracking them down to give them their banner. (Once a policeman, always a policeman
)In return you get a nice colourful banner underneath your name saying 'Forum Donator 2026/27 and the right to add a signature to your profile. Not to mention a nice warm glow inside for helping keep the forum running!
Last year, donations paid for our hosting (courtesy of the fantastic @MattW), software licence renewals, theme updates, domain name, email services and AI moderation. (Not to mention the champagne used for filling the staff room jacuzzi!
)In the face of competition from facebook we are still holding our own and keeping our community and repository of information on guinea pigs alive and up to date making us one of the most successful active Guinea Pig Online Communities across the globe.
I will provide a full breakdown of donations received with data anonymised and how the money is spent to anyone that requests it.
Once our target is reached, I will close and lock this topic.
Thank you once again for being part of this community and making it the place it is. On behalf of the admin team, mod team, and myself, we would like to thank you for making the forum a supportive and kind place to be, you are all awesome and I am extremely humbled to belong to such a great community.
Thanks Tom (BossHogg)
(Please bear with me if I take a while getting back to you, I am an operational front line motorway traffic officer and I may be busy at work - or sleeping between nights!
)If you donated last year, the banking and PayPal details have remained the same.
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