No need for a collection at present thanks. The residue from last year's similar problems and the collection for Malcolm's tribute has all but paid this year's bills. 

The main thing for the forum's survival is to find and train cover for me as another administrator for the forum. There is much less maintenance work to do since I restructured the forum to remove the annual boards that Malcolm's dedication was sufficient to maintain. There were a steady trickle of applications to join but 90% are spammers, I have identified and dealt with 130 applications in the last year, spammers are fewer now as I have applied bans to much of Asian IP addresses.

The website I need to bring up to date, which will involve freezing or removing Malcolm's news correspondents' database in the centre of the home page. It is an ancient package, years out of date and preventing updating the software version of both website and forum which are also years out of date. My problem is I am loath to risk losing so much history when I feel there are barely enough of us to keep this once great forum going, thus I have let sleeping dogs lie.