Crowdfunding: an introduction

Event Details -

• Date: 11/10/2012 - 10:00 - 15:30
• Venue: Chelmsford (central location)
• Fee: GBP £70 VCS (£90 CVS with income over £100,000) £140 statutory

Event description:
Who is it for?
For charities, creative arts, voluntary and community organisations, social enterprises and social entrepreneurs.

What is it about?
What is crowdfunding?
Individuals coming together to support and fund projects by other individuals or organisations.
A campaign can be to gather donations, obtain loans, raise your profile, offer equity, test and idea or product with your market or build an active supportive community for your organisation.

Crowdfunding is an empowering alternative to grant applications.
Crowd funding can be for a variety of purposes - getting a project off the ground; refurbishing a building; financing a film or exhibition or funding a startup company or small business.

What will I learn?

A practical workshop to enable you to:

understand what crowdfunding is and how it works
learn from best practice
clarify your project or venture
start to plan a campaign

Read the article about the trainer Anne Strachan's work in the Manchester Evening News Business Week http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/business/sme/s/1580978_...
See the review on Crowdsourcing Gazette (http://www.crowdsource-gazette.com/2012/02/success-for-manchester-crowdf...)

Some comments from the workshop held on the 2nd February
"All of it was useful and interesting".
"I liked the discussion and practical activities".
"Very good pace, practical activities."
"I found it very useful and have already fed back to the new corporate team and started thinking of ways to use it".
"Thanks for such a brilliant workshop. You had high energy and were excited about crowdfunding - the rest of us became so too."
"Thank you so much for the workshop - you were brilliant and really inspiring and the feedback was great!"

Trainer
Anne Strachan, Crowdfunduk

Further Information -

• Company / Organisation: Voluntary Sector Training
• Contact: Maddy Pritcher
• Email: maddy@voluntarysectortraining.org.uk
• Phone: phone 01371 876747
• Website: Voluntary Sector Training