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 (Confirmed) |
| 'RepRap' Matt | £100 | Yes | Xfer (Confirmed) |
| John Moody | £200 | No | |
| Michael | £100 | No | |
| Soph & Adam | £200 | No | |
| Alex W & Kirsty | £200 | Yes | (Confirmed) |
| Anonymous Member | £200 | Yes | (Confirmed) |
| Rob Hunt | £125 | No | |
| Matt Little | £100 | Yes | xfer 2015-12-31 15:00, ref PLEDGE25-MEL (Confirmed) |
| Mouse | £100 | Yes | xfer 2015-12-12 17:50ish, ref PLEDGE25-MG (Confirmed) |
| Daniel | £100 | No | |
| Joshua Kelly | £175 | No | |
| Ian & Sue Dickinson | £200 | Yes | Xfer (Confirmed) |
| Mark Cambridge | £100 | No | |
| Tasos | £150 | Yes | Xfer on 1/2/17 (Ref: PLEDGE25AA) (Confirmed) |
| Kate | £30 | Yes | (Confirmed) |
| Jodi Warren | £30 | No | |
| John Bell | £30 | No | |
| Froggy | £100 | No | |
| Betty Ching | £30 | Yes | (Confirmend 30) |
| Andreas R | £50 | Yes | (Confirmed) |
| Aithne | £100 | No | |
| Tom Grover | £100 | Yes | (15/02/2016) xFer (Confirmed) |
| Dominic & Gill | £100 | Yes | Xfer 070316 PLEDGE25DOMINICGIL (Confirmed) |
| Andrew Armstrong | £200 | Yes | (Confirmed) |
| Craig Place | £100 | No | |
| Amy Gathercole | £50 | No | |
| Javi Martinez | £100 | Yes | (Confirmed) |
| Tony Shannon | £100 | No | |
| David Clarke | £25 | Yes | Xfer (Confirmed) |
| Rob Haywood | £50 | No | |
| John H | £50 | Yes | (Confirmed) |
| James Taylor | £150 | Yes | PLEDGE25JET (Confirmed) |
| Aaron (Asj, talk) | £100 | PLEDGE25AJ |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 name etched in to a 50mm x 100mm perspex panel on the ground floor Wall Of Names 2.5 | £4 | Owen B | Random colour | |
| Have your name etched in to a 100mm x 150mm perspex panel on the ground floor Wall Of Names 2.5 | £8 | Owen B | Random colour | |
| Have your name etched in to a 150mm x 200mm perspex panel on the ground floor Wall Of Names 2.5 | £16 | Owen B | Random colour | |
| Upgrade your perspex panel on the ground floor Wall Of Names 2.5 by choosing your own colour | £32 | Owen B | List of colours to be added | |
| Have your company name etched in to a 100mm x 150mm perspex panel on the ground floor Wall Of Names 2.5 | £64 | Owen B | Random colour | |
| Have your company name and logo etched in to a 150mm x 200mm perspex panel on the ground floor Wall Of Names 2.5 | £128 | Owen B | Random colour | |
| Have BarBot come to your personal party / event | £1024 | 1 | Mouse | Oh god, what am I doing? |
| A small team of Hackspace members will "bikeshed" your idea or project with you for up to 4 hours | £4096 | 1 | Owen B |
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.
- ...