Expert advice and tips on how to run a successful crowdfunding campaign.
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How to overcome a lull in your crowdfunding campaign
Every crowdfunding campaign has its highs and its lows. If you've hit a lull, here are three sure-fire ways to get you back up and [...]
Crowdfunding 101: Attracting Community Support
Projects that are funded with public money, need to show that they will benefit the whole of their local community, not just a part of [...]
Crowdfunding 101: Your Project Life Cycle
Grassroots ideas and community-led projects can bring people together, change the way we engage with each other and where we live as well as creating places [...]
Crowdfunding 101: Designing your project
One of the hugely important elements in determining the success of your project will be ensuring it's well designed. Check out our top tips from the Mayor of [...]
Community Projects: Getting permission to build
If your project involves building of any kind - there are many things you need to consider from planning permission and building regulations to health [...]
Finished Crowdfunding? Taking your community organisation to the next level with Locality
Congratulations on hitting your target! Now it's time to consider how you want to take the brilliant idea which inspired so many pledges and so much [...]
Crowdfunding 101: Writing a budget
Working out the budget for your project can be complicated - from considering your capital and revenue costs and figuring out VAT to working out staff costs [...]
Crowdfunding 101: Becoming an organisation
Anyone can run a project on Spacehive whether they are an individual, community group, charity or business. However there are a number of funds and [...]
The Benefits of Crowdfunding Public Spaces
Crowdfunding – lots of people giving small amounts of money – isn’t a new concept. In fact, back in the 1800s the base of the [...]