A fundraiser for the households of the three younger ladies who died on the Taylor Swift-themed dance social gathering in Southport, England is selecting up some main steam — hitting nearly half one million bucks.
Cristina Jones and Holly Goldring from the Taylor Swift UK & EU Fb Group began a Simply Giving fundraiser that’s blown their OG purpose of £13,000 ($16,555) out of the water, with £342,867 ($436,623) raised to date on the time of writing.
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The proceeds are going to Alder Hey Kids’s Charity to assist pay for the ladies’ funerals — and in an IG assertion shared by Holly, the charity introduced Taylor into the combination … thanking followers for channeling the spirit of her music and turning their empathy into motion.
It’s additionally made clear responders, clinicians, and the broader Southport group affected by the tragedy can even get monetary assist.
That is becoming, particularly when a far-right, Islamophobic group prompted chaos and destruction exterior a Southport mosque in response to the incident.
Clearly, it’s been a troublesome week for Southport after the brutal slayings, however there’s some progress with justice — the 17-year-old suspect, Axel Rudakubana, is being tried as an grownup.
