--- title: This British Man Has Already Raised Over $230K To Help Pay Greek Debt description: But don't hold your breath canonical: https://time.com/3942118/british-man-indiegogo-greece/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-30T20:31:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T05:35:56.000Z og:title: This British Man Has Already Raised Over $230K To Help Pay Greek Debt og:description: But don't hold your breath og:url: https://time.com/3942118/british-man-indiegogo-greece/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt49aa6232dc78ab19/6988592a196cf4f467036ecd/gettyimages-479035000.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: People waving flags at Syntagma square. Greeks demonstrate og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This British Man Has Already Raised Over $230K To Help Pay Greek Debt twitter:description: But don't hold your breath twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt49aa6232dc78ab19/6988592a196cf4f467036ecd/gettyimages-479035000.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # British Man Breaks Crowdfunding Site Trying to Bail Out Greece  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Updated: Dec 13, 2023 5:35 AM UTCPublished: Jun 30, 2015 8:31 PM UTC  People waving flags at Syntagma square. (George Panagakis--Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images) People waving flags at Syntagma square. (George Panagakis--Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)Pacific Press—LightRocket via Getty Images  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Updated: Dec 13, 2023 5:35 AM UTCPublished: Jun 30, 2015 8:31 PM UTC A British man has started a crowdfunding site to raise funds for a bailout for Greece, and he’s already raised over $230,000– about 0.01% of what Greece needs. Thom Feeney, a marketing manager who lives in the U.K., decided he would do his part to solve the Greek financial crisis one Internet user at a time, by asking for donations via crowdfunding site Indiegogo: > [](https://twitter.com/ThomFeeney/status/615245112440942592) The IndieGogo page has [since crashed](https://s3.amazonaws.com/igg-errorpage/greece%5Fmessage.html), but Feeney has promised it will be back up and running shortly. Unfortunately, the campaign ends in a week, and under Indiegogo rules if a fixed-funding project like this one is not fully funded by the deadline, the campaign doesn’t get the money. And Greece is so deep in the hole that even if the site kept raising over $230,000 per day, [CBC](http://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/a-british-man-crowdfunding-a-greek-bailout-has-raised-a-6-figure-sum-1.3133131) reports, it would take 24 years to reach the $2.1 billion goal. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3942118/british-man-indiegogo-greece/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3942118/british-man-indiegogo-greece/"},"headline":"British Man Breaks Crowdfunding Site Trying to Bail Out Greece","datePublished":"2015-06-30T20:31:24.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T05:35:56.000Z","description":"But don't hold your breath","url":"https://time.com/3942118/british-man-indiegogo-greece/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Indiegogo","Debt","Greece","uk","British"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt49aa6232dc78ab19/6988592a196cf4f467036ecd/gettyimages-479035000.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt49aa6232dc78ab19/6988592a196cf4f467036ecd/gettyimages-479035000.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"People waving flags at Syntagma square. 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