crowd funding for community project

[arthur]

Does anyone have any knowledge or experience of crowd funding. I am at the stage of reading everything I can about it as the community project I started wants to do more for those in need. The project is a great success, we have been awarded a grant from the police commissioners fund that has enabled us to buy the IT equipment and other necessary things for the project.

Data protection is of the utmost importance to us and we have process in place that meet with the increased criteria for the new date protection rules.


We see a high number of the people in our community and further a field, our project is very successful at benefit appeals and debt guidance and it seems to be making a real difference to improving people lives


We now want to move into obtaining funding to send families on holiday – we see lots of people that have young children that have never had holiday. We also see lots of young adults that have moved over to universal credit and they don't have enough money for gas electric and clothing. The whole of the universal credit system is a fiasco and doesn't work. I want to campaign to get it scrapped but don't have the time because I'm so busy dealing with the fall out from the welfare reform act.


So Crowdfunding is my next project and any help or ideas or guidance would be wonderful

 

[Mikinton]

I've only ever been involved in one (as a contributor), but I must say, setting it up seemed to be fairly straightforward. I've just googled 'crowdfunding "how to"' (as I dare say you have) and it's come back with this ....

https://knowhownonprofit.org/how-to/how-to-and-why-set-up-a-crowdfunding-campaign#

Point 1 says "A crowdfunding campaign needs to be specific, with a clear outcome. This could be launching a new service, creating a new product or holding an event. It should also be time-limited." . Your project seems to be open-ended*, unless you just mean the initial start-up costs.

Anyway, good luck.

ETA * - I should just add (as an ex-project manager) that an open-ended project is a contradiction in terms, but you know what I mean.