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Three Crowdfunder faces on the Smiley Movement Impact 100 list

Three Crowdfunder faces on the Smiley Movement Impact 100 list

by Rebecca Hughes | Oct 29, 2026

Written: 28 October 2026 Smiley News has named its first Impact 100: The New Generation list for 2026, and three people from the Crowdfunder community are on it. The list celebrates 100 changemakers from the UK, the US and beyond, across ten categories. Athletes, musicians, inventors and community campaigners all feature. There were no nominations […]

How Siren Craft Brew crowdfunded two breweries and became Crowdfunder’s best-backed brewery

How Siren Craft Brew crowdfunded two breweries and became Crowdfunder’s best-backed brewery

by Rebecca Hughes | Oct 26, 2026

Written: 15 October 2026 Siren Craft Brew has raised £411,617 on Crowdfunder across two campaigns, from 2,193 people. It is more than any other brewery in Crowdfunder’s history, and Siren is the only brewery with two campaigns in the all-time top seven. The money is only half the story. Here is how a brewery that […]

October launch notes: a new Payouts page

October launch notes: a new Payouts page

by Rebecca Hughes | Oct 13, 2026

This month we’ve rebuilt the Payouts page in your project dashboard. It now shows every pound from pledged to banked, so you can see where your money is and when it will arrive. A clear view of your money, from pledge to bank Example payout states, and history page with placeholders. The old page showed […]

How to secure a corporate charity partnership: Lessons from the CCP conference

How to secure a corporate charity partnership: Lessons from the CCP conference

by Rebecca Hughes | Oct 13, 2026

Last week, our team headed to London for the Corporate Charity Partnerships Conference. We spent the day listening to CSR leads, charities and partnership professionals talk about what makes a corporate charity partnership work, and what stops one before it starts.

Save the Traf: The community share offer turning a threatened Wimbledon pub into a community-owned local

Save the Traf: The community share offer turning a threatened Wimbledon pub into a community-owned local

by Rebecca Hughes | Oct 02, 2026

Written: 2 October 2026 The Trafalgar in South Wimbledon has raised £325,890 from 203 supporters towards saving itself from demolition, with 49 days left to hit its new stretch target of £530,000. View project on Crowdfunder Community Benefit Society Cabo Trafalgar Ltd is buying the pub’s freehold outright through a community share offer, the same […]

The Positivity Project: Episode 2

The Positivity Project: Episode 2

by Rebecca Hughes | Sep 29, 2026

Written: 29 September 2026 Trees work on timescales we’re not really built to notice. A woodland takes hundreds, sometimes thousands, of years to become what we’d call ancient. Episode two of The Positivity Project follows one reforestation project across that span: from a handful of collected seeds, through a nursery of tens of thousands of […]

10 rugby club fundraising ideas (with real clubs who’ve raised money)

10 rugby club fundraising ideas (with real clubs who’ve raised money)

by Rebecca Hughes | Sep 24, 2026

Written: 24 September 2026 Raising money for your rugby club shouldn’t be hard. Here are 10 ideas that actually work, from online campaigns to a Saturday afternoon in the clubhouse, with real clubs and figures for each. 1. Launch a crowdfunding campaign for your big project If you’re facing a five or six-figure bill for […]

Leisure centres: crowdfunding to better serve the community

Leisure centres: crowdfunding to better serve the community

by Rebecca Hughes | Sep 18, 2026

There’s a photo doing the rounds of Bridport Leisure Centre in the 1980s: an aerobics class in leg warmers and a hand-painted “Welcome to Bridport Leisure Centre” sign.

Hockey clubs: there’s a new way to fund your pitch

Hockey clubs: there’s a new way to fund your pitch

by Rebecca Hughes | Sep 17, 2026

If your club needs to replace or develop an artificial grass pitch and the cost feels out of reach, the Pitch Together Fund could help turn your plans into reality.

A brand new dashboard, built with project owners in mind

by Rebecca Hughes | Aug 13, 2026

This month we’re launching something we’ve been working on for a while. Your new project owner dashboard. When you log in, this is where you’ll land. It’s been designed around a simple idea: you shouldn’t have to go looking for what to do next. The dashboard gets you where you need to go, quickly, and […]

The Community Right to Buy is here. Here’s what it means for your campaign.

The Community Right to Buy is here. Here’s what it means for your campaign.

by Rebecca Hughes | Aug 10, 2026

On 16 June 2026, the government announced a new Community Right to Buy, and if you’re trying to save a pub, a community centre, a sports ground, or any other local asset, it’s worth understanding what’s changed and what it means for how you raise money. The short version: community groups in England now have […]

Match funding, TikToks and more: what we’ve shipped this month

Match funding, TikToks and more: what we’ve shipped this month

by Rebecca Hughes | Jul 23, 2026

July 2026 We ship updates to Crowdfunder regularly, and most of them don’t come with a fanfare. Here’s a quick roundup of what’s landed recently. TikToks and YouTube Shorts on your project page If you’ve already got a video on TikTok or YouTube Shorts that captures exactly what your project is about, you can now […]

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