Hackspace 2.5/Fundraising

Raising Money For Hackspace 2.5

Pledge Drive

Many generous members have pledged to donate money towards the HS2.5 project. If you would like to join them, please add your name and pledge here! Everyone who pledges gets their name on the Wall of Names in the studio (unless they don't want to!).

You should have received an email from the Trustees with payment details.

Who	How Much	Paid?	Method Paid
James Hayward	£200	No
Chris Cain	£200	Yes	Xfer
'RepRap' Matt	£100	Yes	Xfer
John Moody	£200	No
Michael	£100	No
Soph & Adam	£200	No
Alex W & Kirsty	£200	No
Anonymous Member	£200	No
Rob Hunt	£125	No
Matt Little	£100	No
Mouse	£100	No
Daniel	£100	No
Joshua Kelly	£175	No
Ian & Sue Dickinson	£200	No
Mark Cambridge	£100	No
Kate	£30	No
Jodi Warren	£30	No
John Bell	£30	No
Froggy	£100	No
Betty Ching	£50	No
Andreas R	£50	No
Aithne	£100	No
Tom Grover	£100	No
Dominic & Gill	£100	No
Andrew Armstrong	£200	No
Craig Place	£100	No
Amy Gathercole	£50	No
Javi Martinez	£100	No
Tony Shannon	£100	No
David Clarke	£25	Yes	Xfer
Rob Haywood	£50	No

Crowdfunding Campaign

In addition to a traditional hackspace pledge drive, there will be a crowdfunding campaign hosted on Indiegogo, Go Fund Me or some similar service. This allows us to cast a wider net, and receive funds from non-members and by different payment methods.

Service

Using an online service gives us broader reach, a familiar structure, well tested mechanisms, multiple payment methods for donors, and the brand of the service to reassure people.

Exactly which service to use is still to be decided. Kickstarter is out because if we don't reach our goal, we get no money, and because they are focued on new products, not extensions to services.

Indiegogo was sucessfully used by Noisebridge for their reboot, and Go Fund Me is also in the running.

Specific Base Goal

• Target amount: £?
• Expansion of Nottinghack
• Regaining the "biggest hackspace in the UK" crown!
• Making the space fully accessible to wheelchair users
• ...

Stretch Goals

TODO

Rewards

We want this list to be unique to the hackspace. Any crowdfunding campaign can give out t-shirts (and we will too), but we have a lot of talented people at the space able to pledge completely unique things - turned wooden sculptures, cool laser-cut lampshades, leather dohickeys, entry to workshops - all sorts!

This list is quite vague at the moment - we need to expand it, determine values for each reward, make the items more specific by costing them and having volunteers "own" each item, and so on.

Reward	Pledge Amount	Number Availabale	Owner	Notes
Have your name added to the Wall Of Names in the Studio	£5	unlimited
Limited edition, gold perspex rabbit keyring	£10	50
Eat at hackspace fundraiser roast dinner	£20	8	Mouse
Screen printed t-shirts	£25	20
Have your company name added to the Wall Of Names in the Studio	£64?	10
Have your company name and logo added to the Wall Of Names in the Studio	£128?	5
Have your corporation name and logo added to the Wall Of Names in the Studio	£1024?	3
Have BarBot come to your personal party / event	£1024	1	Mouse	Oh god, what am I doing?

Increasing Regular Income

In addition to raising a lump sum to cover capital expenditure, we will need to increase our regular income to cover the additional rent and other outgoings associated with the larger space. Possible methods to achieve this:

• Growing our membership - the space is already growing, but we can do more to grow faster and to keep members engaged:
  • Be more awesome!
  • Re-double our outreach efforts at events
  • Direct advertising
  • Encouraging members to tell their friends and family about the space
  • Make efforts to get exposure in the media
• Increasing the average monthly payment - not everyone can afford to pay a lot to be a member of the space, and that is fine, but those who can, and who feel the space is something they value could be encouraged to increase their monthly payment
• Run more workshops - and charge for them.
• ...