• Crowdfunduk

    This promotes crowdfunding to build community and raise funds for social enterprises, charities, creative organisations and community groups.

Tips from a successful suffragette crowdfunding campaign

The Pankhurst Centre Manchester is involved in a whole year of events in 2018 to celebrate some women getting the vote through the Representation of the people Act a hundred years ago. In December 2017 they embarked on a crowdfunding campaign on Crowdfunder to raise funds to build a Suffragette Garden to commemorate the work of Emmeline … Continue reading

Tips from crowdfunding a big red bus

It’s always interesting to chat to people in the middle of running a crowdfunding campaign. Commonplace is a mobile community space housed in a big red double decker bus, showcasing the best events and meet-ups across Manchester. They are crowdfunding to start the conversion of the double decker.  I interviewed Lucy and Roxanna about setting … Continue reading

School of hard Knocks - a crowdfunding case study

How easy is it for a charity to use crowdfunding? The School of Hard Knocks is a charity that uses sport to tackle the issues surrounding unemployment, crime and health. They work with unemployed adults to help them find and sustain work; and with school children at risk of exclusion to help them re-engage with … Continue reading

How important is social media to your crowdfunding campaign

Social media is a key tool for any crowdfunding campaign. It helps you establish new connections and deepen the relationship with known allies. This widens your social network and enhances your social capital giving a better chance of success We’re all using social media Just to get an idea of how important social media is … Continue reading

Crowdfunding your business

I’m often asked why crowdfunding is so much hard work. So I thought I would ask an expert, Debora Barbosa from Learnbonds, a financial review website covering bonds, crypto and this list of UK payday loans, for her top tips! … Continue reading

Crowdfunding your film - tips from Alt Angle films

Are you wanting to crowdfund your film? Here’s some great tips Darren Langlands, from Alt Angle films and I are running a workshop on crowdfunding for creative projects at Home Manchester 18 March. Crowdfunding is increasing in popularity in this sector but this means that people think it is easy and don’t do the hard … Continue reading

Our Manchester crowdfunding - with £60k of match pledges available

Our Manchester on Spacehive Manchester City Council is launching the new “OurManchester” Hive on crowdfunding platform Spacehive with a pledge pot of £60,000 for your local projects. Anyone can make great ideas happen through crowdfunding! What could you or your organisation do to make Manchester an even better place to live and work? Come to … Continue reading

When is it the best time to launch a crowdfunding campaign?

What time of year, week, day is best? This is a question I am often asked at workshops. There is of course no one answer but here are some questions you should ask yourself. When do you need the money? Work backwards from your deadline and leave at least a month from successful end of campaign … Continue reading

Crowdfunding - keeping momentum during your campaign

Crowdfunding campaign - tips for effective action You’ve got a brilliant idea; uploaded a video; done your action plan; drafted press releases; built up your twitter and Facebook following; got your initial donors to pledge immediately and then you’ve launched. If you’ve done the work above you’re on track for a successful result. You should … Continue reading

thINK- a book of incendiary cartoon skepticism - the crowdfunding story so far

Think – the book 56 pages of satire-coated ammunition, waiting to be loaded and aimed at superstition, irrationality and anti-science delusions. A crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter by Polyp (Paul Fitzgerald), a friend of mine from Manchester. I’ve always though the Polyp books are perfect for crowdfunding – visual, funny, radical and he has an engaged … Continue reading