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Planet positive ideas for you to get behind.

Cornwall Council and Crowdfunder teamed up to find green initiatives who are responding to the climate emergency.

The below projects have been chosen to get a portion of £30,000 in match funding (up to £5,000 per project) from Cornwall Council to go towards a crowdfunding campaign.

Projects who #BackTheFuture

Entries for the Cornwall Climate Challenge are now closed

But if you have an idea on how to tackle the climate emergency in Cornwall you can still set up a project and start crowdfunding as part of #BackTheFuture.

Find out more about #BackTheFuture

What is match funding?

When you hit a certain target in raising money for your idea, one of our amazing partners will match the amount raised with their own donation - effectively DOUBLING the money raised!

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How the funding worked

The £30,000 match funding was split into two funding pots. £10,000 was ring-fenced to ensure all successful projects received £1,000 match funding, subject to hitting milestone one.

The remaining £20,000 match funding was available on a first come, first served basis to the successful projects subject to hitting milestones two and three outlined below.

£5,000

Milestone one

Raise £1,000 from at least 30 supporters, receive a £1,000 pledge.

£5,000

Milestone two

Raise a further £1,500 from the crowd (total amount raised £3,500), receive a £1,500 pledge.

£5,000

Milestone three

Raise a further £2,500 from the crowd (total amount raised £7,500), receive a £2,500 pledge.

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