Tagged: phil geraghty

October 8, 2014 @ 9:17 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

CrowdfunderUK is rolling out UK-wide campaigns after the success of the campaign for Crowdfund Cornwall. The next four cities immediately benefiting from a region-specific campaign rollout will be Bristol, Manchester, Liverpool and Edinburgh. Crowdfunding projects across the cities have already raised substantial funds in their respective… Read More

September 24, 2014 @ 12:28 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Nearly two weeks ago, Crowdfunder UK, hosted an online crowdfunding event at the Eden Project for three foodie start-ups. They each battled it out to gain support and funding from the crowd, which were both live audience and online viewers. And now, the winner of… Read More

September 11, 2014 @ 5:09 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

UK’s reward-based crowdfunding platform, Crowdfunder UK, is hosting an online event at the Eden Project on Friday (September 12th) between 7 – 8pm. Three crowdfunding projects, all foodie start-ups, will battle it out to gain support and funding from the crowd, both in the live audience and… Read More

September 9, 2014 @ 11:26 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Creative England and the UK’s leading crowdfunding website, Crowdfunder have joined forces to find and fund the England’s top female game developers and freelancers through an innovative crowdfunding partnership.  A widely reported 49% of gamers in the England are women but only 12% of the people making… Read More

September 8, 2014 @ 9:05 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

The UK’s rewards-based crowdfunding platform, Crowdfunder, is one of 50 people or projects that are being celebrated for helping to change Britain for the better and named in the 2014 New Radicals list by Nesta and The Observer. New Radicals is a search led by Nesta, the UK’s innovation… Read More

September 3, 2014 @ 2:58 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Vote for Policies, an innovative online voter support service, has crowdfunded £23,551 on Crowdfunder to pay for a state-of-the-art new website to help the British public decide who to vote for in the 2015 UK general election. Initially launched shortly before the 2010 UK general election… Read More

June 16, 2014 @ 1:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

Following their hugely successful funding round, Crowdfunder UK has confirmed that Chartered Accountant, Deborah Edwards will lead the UK’s No 1 rewards-based crowdfunding platform’s finance team. Deborah, who is a partner at Harlands Accountants in Cornwall was brought on board to assist with Crowdfunder’s fundraise and look… Read More

May 22, 2014 @ 11:52 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

FC United of Manchester has smashed through their ambitious £46k fundraising target on the crowdfunding website Crowdfunder. All the funds will go towards the cost of their function room and kitchen at the new Broadhurst Park ground in Moston, currently under construction. 872 pledges, along… Read More

April 30, 2014 @ 8:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

UK based Crowdfunder has had an excellent month.  Having launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube, the company reached their stated goal of raising £500,000 in just three hours.  £230,000 was pledged within the first 15 minutes.  NESTA was first up to pledge contributing £150,000…. Read More

April 23, 2014 @ 1:26 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just three hours into its equity crowdfund campaign on Crowdcube, Crowdfunder announced with over 200 investors, it reached its goal of £500,000. The website launched its fundraiser on Wednesday morning and was blown away when  £230,000 was pledged within 15 minutes. Crowdfunder’s  managing director Phil… Read More

April 23, 2014 @ 12:05 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Only a few days before UK’s leading crowdfunding network Crowdfunder launched its own £500,000 campaign on Crowdcube, the website announced that charity NESTA is the first to pledge towards the equity fundraiser with £150,000. NESTA previously provided grand funds towards Crowdfunder as an early stage partner… Read More

April 4, 2014 @ 9:39 am By JD Alois  |  

UK based rewards crowdfunding platform, Crowdfunder has confirmed that it has raised over £1.5m for UK projects – and grown by a factor of 15 in the last 12 months.  Accompanied by a report from The Crowdfunding Centre stating that Crowdfunder.co.uk has more projects than… Read More

March 11, 2014 @ 8:24 am By JD Alois  |  

UK based Scoot has partnered with Crowdfunder to create a  £2 million partnership will enable groups across the country to raise their profiles via the Scoot network increasing local awareness, raising funds, linking businesses, communities and people.  Crowdfunder has launched over 2000 projects and raised… Read More