Stephen Fry, cucumber sarnies, and the race to fund a community centre!
Amazing. Just days in and our first project catches the eye of Stephen Fry, god daddy of Twitter! Can Twitter build a community centre? Stephen appears to think so. Well, it seems you can crowdfund a...
View ArticleJubillegal flotilla sets sail
Hundreds of revelers took to the water in the Regent's Canal, London, as part of the Jubillegal - an alternative water pageant designed to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee which was crowdfunded on...
View ArticleCrowdfunding parents bring playground to life: BBC News
Check out this BBC report on our first playground project! It's at Hanover Primary School in Islington, perched overlooking the towpath on Regents Canal. So far funding has come from a mix of parents,...
View ArticleMeet the UK ‘s crowdfunding superstars – Inside Out, BBC 1
If you had a great idea for a new product or service, how would you go about raising the funds to turn your idea into reality? In this episode of Inside Out, BBC 1 investigates the growth of inventors...
View ArticleSuggs on BBC: Let’s create “people’s sculpture park”
Madness star Suggs takes to the airwaves to call on viewers to help transform East London's industrial hinterland into a huge open air sculpture park. The works will be crowdsourced from artists across...
View ArticleCivic Crowdfunding – A Guidebook for Local Authorities
Download your free copy of the definitive guide to civic crowdfunding for local authorities here. Cities are increasingly using crowdfunding to democratise the way places are created and funded: from...
View ArticleStanding out from the crowdfunding – by James Parkinson, GLA
By James Parkinson | 27 March 2019 Originally published in the MJ It is well known that in order to create sustainable change and improvement in an area, the local community should be engaged and...
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