What is Crowdfunder?
Crowdfunder is an innovative funding platform helping project owners' ideas become realities across the UK and Europe.
Launched in November 2010, Crowdfunder is one of the UK's leading rewards based crowdfunding platforms after merging with Peoplefund.it. To date the Crowdfunder network has raised over £500,000 for great ideas, people and projects in process. The
We’re also working with a number of partners including NESTA, Forum for the Future, Unbound, Peoplefund.it, WeDidThis, Project Dirt and Enterprise Nation.
Whether your project is big or small, hare-brained or thoughtful, serious or just for fun - we want to hear from you. Crowdfunder aims to fund all sorts of crazy, arty, funny, ingenious and jaw-dropping projects. So if you’re an artist, explorer, musician, writer, entrepreneur or thrill seeker get in touch and kick start your project with Crowdfunder today.
How does Crowdfunder work?
Lots of people – each giving a small amount – can make good things happen. The ‘crowd’ decides what’s good, what’s not, what they want to fund and what they don’t. If the crowd doesn’t back the project it won’t happen.
Project owner?
We give creative people the platform to raise cash for their ideas. It's a great way to gain a massive fan base and test your idea out on the crowd, thus validating your idea. A fun, easy and fast way of raising money without borrowing from the banks.
It couldn't be easier to raise money. All you need is a good idea, five tangible rewards, a short project video explaining what your project is and most importantly passion.
All project owners offer rewards to investors in return for pledges from as little as £1. And if you don't hit your target you don't get charged.
Did we forget to mention it's free to add a project, so what are you waiting for?
Backer?
We love letting people back projects that are close to their hearts which is why we have made it super easy for you to invest in a project.
In return for funding a project you’ll get a reward from the project owner. This could be anything from a ‘big thank you’ to a one off tailored reward just for you, both the project owner and backer win.
We take payments via PayPal but you don't need a Paypal account to do this. Just go through the Account set up process and then click on the appropriate debit or credit card link and you can pay that way.
We also take Direct Debit payments via Go Cardless.
Go ahead and fund a project today, there's loads of cool rewards waiting for you.
After researching information about crowdfunder i wanted to research further and explore numerous company's that offered the same. I thought by doing this it would enable me to decided which fund raiser would be best for me. The other two company's i researched where kickstarter and indiegogo.
KickStarter
Kickstarter is a new way to fund creative projects.
We’re a home for everything from films, games, and music to art, design, and technology. Kickstarter is full of projects, big and small, that are brought to life through the direct support of people like you. Since our launch in 2009, more than 3.9 million people have pledged over $587 million, funding more than 40,000 creative projects. Thousands of creative projects are raising funds on Kickstarter right now.
Each project is independently created.
The filmmakers, musicians, artists, and designers you see on Kickstarter have complete control over and responsibility for their projects. Kickstarter is a platform and a resource; we’re not involved in the development of the projects themselves. Anyone can launch a project on Kickstarter as long as it meets our guidelines.
Together, creators and backers make projects happen.
Project creators set a funding goal and deadline. If people like a project, they can pledge money to make it happen. Funding on Kickstarter is all-or-nothing — projects must reach their funding goals to receive any money. All-or-nothing funding might seem scary, but it’s amazingly effective in creating momentum and rallying people around an idea. To date, an impressive 44% of projects have reached their funding goals.
“ There’s just something magical about Kickstarter... You immediately feel like you’re part of a larger club of art-supporting fanatics.”
Creators keep 100% ownership of their work.
Backers are supporting projects to help them come to life, not to profit financially. Instead, project creators offer rewards to thank backers for their support. Backers of an effort to make a book or film, for example, often get a copy of the finished work. A bigger pledge to a film project might get you into the premiere — or a private screening for you and your friends. One artist raised funds to create a wall installation, then gave pieces of it to her backers when the exhibit ended.
Creative works were funded this way for centuries.
Mozart, Beethoven, Whitman, Twain, and other artists funded works in similar ways — not just with help from large patrons, but by soliciting money from smaller patrons, often called subscribers. In return for their support, these subscribers might have received an early copy or special edition of the work. Kickstarter is an extension of this model, turbocharged by the web.
"The most democratic way art has ever been made.”
Backing a project is more than just giving someone money.
It’s supporting their dream to create something that they want to see exist in the world. People rally around their friends’ projects, fans support people they admire, and others simply come to Kickstarter to be inspired by new ideas. Some projects take longer than anticipated, but creators who are transparent about issues and delays usually find their backers to be understanding.
Our mission is to help bring creative projects to life.
We’re a for-profit company based in New York City’s Lower East Side. We spend our time making Kickstarter a little bit better every day, answering questions from backers and creators, and finding new projects to share. If a project is successfully funded, we apply a 5% fee to the funds collected.
We believe that creative projects make for a better world, and we’re thrilled to help support new ones. After 35,000+ successfully funded projects, we know that building a community of backers around an idea is an amazing way to make something new.
indiegogo.
- Everyone should have the opportunity to raise money. Now everyone does. People all over the world use our industry-leading platform to raise millions of dollars for all types of campaigns. No matter what you are raising money for, you can start right now with no fee or application process.
- At Indiegogo, creating a campaign is simple. Tell people what you are doing, how they can help and what unique perks they'll get for becoming contributors. You keep 100% ownership of your campaign and you don't owe us a cent until you raise money. Our customer happiness team is here to make sure you have the support you need any time of day.
- Indiegogo helps you spread the word about your campaign with a unique algorithm we call the gogofactor. Use our powerful social media tools when you launch your funding campaign and start sharing, tweeting, and encouraging people to 'like' your campaign to boost your gogofactor. Raise it enough and you could be featured on our homepage or in the press!
- Browse the thousands of amazing campaigns on our site to find your inspiration. Discover something new, contribute to a campaign and join the tens of thousands of people who use Indiegogo every day.
After researching all three company's i made a funding page with Indiegogo. I chose this company as i was interested and intrigued how it helps you spread the word about your campaign. I thought it would be good to use their social media tools when i launch my funding campaign as i could start sharing, tweeting, and encouraging people to 'like' my campaign and boost my gogofactor. Plus if i raise enough i could be featured on their homepage or in the press! Which would really benefit my project and help start build my photography career.Starting up my funding page on Indiegogo.
What i wrote on my home page...My work creates ethical fashion with a sense of right and wrong? It explains and emphasizes the importance of the global and personal benefits of adopting these practices, and demonstrates the ways in which individuals, can make conscious changes in their wardrobe choices, reducing their environmental impact of 'waste couture' on our planet.i would require funding in order to develop and research recycled fashion. This would enable me to guarantee that my prints would be of a suitable standard of quality for magazine publication.Any donations will help me to achieve my goal and in return, will receive an A4 print of your chosen photo from my recycled fashion photography project.(If you chose to pledge £10, you will receive a free handmade designed recycled item of clothing)thank you very much and I hope you will support me, please send me an email with your name and address after pledging so I can contact you regarding your A4 print or gift, and send it to you! My email adders is :ABOUT SOPHIE JONESSophie Jones is a photographer studying a Bachelor Degree in photography: Contemporary Practice in Rochester, UK; based mainly in Kent. She specializes in portrait and fashion photography, however also enjoys many other aspects including, nature, landscape and documentary. Sophie has explored both digital and analogue photography through out her degree and in previous work, utilizing aspects of both forms. She has dealt with themes of fashion greatly during her time at university, connecting to the subject through personal experience, thoughts and politics, and self opinions. Since starting her degree, Jones has taken on several commissions in the field of fashion as well as still life, landscape and documentary, some of work photography has been featured on websites and in public exhibitions, and this time a fashion magazine.
