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Love, You Make It: What Olivia Dean’s prize draw can teach charities about music prize draws

Love, You Make It: What Olivia Dean’s prize draw can teach charities about music prize draws

by Rebecca Hughes | Nov 03, 2026

Written: 2 November 2026 Olivia Dean is playing one of her most intimate shows of the year, and the only way in is through a prize draw on Crowdfunder. Love, You Make It takes place at Hackney Church on 18 November and celebrates 15 years of You Make It, an East London charity that helps […]

How to run a raffle for your school or PTA

How to run a raffle for your school or PTA

by Rebecca Hughes | Oct 30, 2026

Written: 27 October 2026 TL;DR: Taking your PTA raffle online can help you raise thousands of pounds by reaching parents, grandparents, local businesses and the wider school community. The simplest route is usually a raffle-style prize draw with a genuine free entry option, which avoids the need for a lottery licence or registration when set […]

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 […]

Best UK Reward-based Crowdfunding Platforms for Arts

Best UK Reward-based Crowdfunding Platforms for Arts

by Rebecca Hughes | Oct 26, 2026

Written: 26 October 2026 TL;DR: For UK arts projects, Crowdfunder is a lower-cost and more flexible option than Kickstarter. The best UK reward-based crowdfunding platform for arts depends on three things: what it costs, what happens if you miss your target and whether it can unlock match funding. Crowdfunder and Kickstarter are the two main […]

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 […]

The Positivity Project, episode three: hedgerow to bottle

The Positivity Project, episode three: hedgerow to bottle

by Rebecca Hughes | Oct 14, 2026

Written: 14 October 2026 Episode three is about something small, patient and circular, working with nature rather than around it. This time we’re in Glynde, East Sussex, at a brewery smaller than most people knew a brewery could be. A nanobrewery is even smaller than a microbrewery, and in a world that optimises towards profit […]

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.

How to run an online raffle legally in the UK

How to run an online raffle legally in the UK

by Rebecca Hughes | Oct 08, 2026

Quick answer: do you need a gambling licence or registration?

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 […]

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