--- description: But don't hold your breath title: This British Man Has Already Raised Over $230K To Help Pay Greek Debt image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt49aa6232dc78ab19/6988592a196cf4f467036ecd/gettyimages-479035000.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # British Man Breaks Crowdfunding Site Trying to Bail Out Greece  by [Charlotte Alter](/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Senior Correspondent Updated: Dec 13, 2023 5:35 AM CUTPublished: Jun 30, 2015 8:31 PM CUT  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](/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Senior Correspondent Updated: Dec 13, 2023 5:35 AM CUTPublished: Jun 30, 2015 8:31 PM CUT 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 "undefined"), 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 "undefined") 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. Greeks demonstrate","caption":"People waving flags at Syntagma square. Greeks demonstrate","creditText":"Pacific Press—LightRocket via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3942118/british-man-indiegogo-greece/","name":"British Man Breaks Crowdfunding Site Trying to Bail Out Greece"}}]}] ```